Saturation physics in ultra high energy cosmic rays: Heavy quark production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Gonçalves, Victor P ^a   MacHado, Magno V T ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PAMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deep inelastic scattering; High energy cosmic rays; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247863854     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/028     Document Type: Article

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