Matter creation via vacuum fluctuations in the early Universe and observed ultrahigh energy cosmic ray events

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Tkachev, Igor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 85037918366     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.123006     Document Type: Article

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