Bound states of Dirac particles in gravitational fields

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Boulanger, Nicolas ^a   Spindel, Philippe ^a   Buisseret, Fabien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

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EID: 33845655688     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.125014     Document Type: Article

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