An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300–800 GeV
By Johan Chang, J. Adams, H. Ahn, G. Bashindzhagyan, M. Christl, O. Ganel, T. Guzik, J. Isbert, K. C. Kim, E. Kuznetsov and 9 more. Nature, 2008
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