Light shining through walls

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-236

  Redondo, Javier ^a,b   Ringwald, Andreas ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elementary particle physics at very low energies; Hypothetical particles beyond the standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956104500     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2011.563516     Document Type: Review

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