Cosmic ray knee and new physics at the TeV scale

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Barceló, Roberto ^a   Masip, Manuel ^a   Mastromatteo, Iacopo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Extra dimensions; Ultra high energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350683494     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/027     Document Type: Article

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