Evidence for a new light spin-zero boson from cosmological gamma-ray propagation?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  De Angelis, Alessandro ^a,b,d   Roncadelli, Marco ^c   Mansutti, Oriana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

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EID: 37349123144     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.121301     Document Type: Article

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