GLAST and Lorentz violation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Lamon, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma ray burst experiments; Gamma ray bursts; Quantum gravity phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349102728     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/022     Document Type: Article

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