An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300-800 GeV

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7220, 2008, Pages 362-365

  Chang, J ^a,b   Adams Jr , J H ^c   Ahn, H S ^d   Bashindzhagyan, G L ^e   Christl, M ^c   Ganel, O ^d   Guzik, T G ^f   Isbert, J ^f   Kim, K C ^d   Kuznetsov, E N ^e   Panasyuk, M I ^e   Panov, A D ^e   Schmidt, W K H ^b   Seo, E S ^d   Sokolskaya, N V ^e   Watts, J W ^c   Wefel, J P ^f   Wu, J ^d   Zatsepin, V I ^e  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAY; ELECTRON; ION; POWER LAW;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; ELECTRON; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; MASS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUARK; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 56749143755     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07477     Document Type: Article

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