Hints of an axion-like particle mixing in the GeV gamma-ray blazar data?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mena, Olga ^a   Razzaque, Soebur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

active galactic nuclei; axions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888602666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/023     Document Type: Article

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