Anomalous positron excess from Lorentz-violating QED

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Andrianov, Alexander ^a   Espriu, Domènec ^a   Giacconi, Paola ^b   Soldati, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Qcd; Space time symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350022199     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/057     Document Type: Article

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