Confusing the extragalactic neutrino flux limit with a neutrino propagation limit

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Barranco, Juan ^a   Miranda, Omar G ^b   Moura, Celio A ^c   Rashba, Timur I ^d   Rossi Torres, Fernando ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; neutrino experiments; ultra high energy cosmic rays; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 80655131130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/007     Document Type: Article

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