New constraints on very light pseudoscalars

Proceedings of the 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 147-150

  Payez, A ^a   Cudell, J R ^a   Hutsemekers D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONS;

PARAMETER SPACES; PSEUDOSCALARS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84864471021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3204/DESY-PROC-2011-04/payez_alexandre     Document Type: Conference Paper

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