The energy production rate & the generation spectrum of UHECRs

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Katz, Boaz ^a   Budnik, Ran ^a   Waxman, Eli ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Ultra high energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649138397     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/020     Document Type: Article

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