Predictions of ultrahigh-energy proton-air production cross sections from accelerator data

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Block, M M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 37249040566     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.111503     Document Type: Article

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