Gamma ray bursts from superconducting cosmic strings

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Berezinsky, V ^a   Hnatyk, B ^a,b   Vilenkin, A ^c  

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b PIDSTRYHACH INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED PROBLEMS OF MECHANICS AND MATHEMATICS   (Ukraine)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COSMOS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODEL; PARAMETER; PHYSICS;

EID: 85037879604     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.043004     Document Type: Article

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