Pinpointing cosmic ray propagation with the AMS-02 experiment

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Pato, Miguel ^a,b,c   Hooper, Dan ^d,e   Simet, Melanie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmic ray experiments; cosmic ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954078314     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/06/022     Document Type: Article

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