Lorentz invariance violation and chemical composition of ultra high energy cosmic rays

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Saveliev, Andrey ^a   MacCione, Luca ^b   Sigl, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

quantum gravity phenomenology; ultra high energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953649372     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/03/046     Document Type: Article

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