Exotic heavily ionizing particles can be constrained by the geological abundance of fullerenes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3097-3100

  Collar, J I ^a,b   Zioutas, K ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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EID: 4244037690     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3097     Document Type: Article

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