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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Production of antimatter molecular ions

Mark C. Zammit, M. Charlton, S. Jonsell, James P. Colgan, Dmitry V. Fursa, Alisher S. Kadyrov, Igor Bray, Robert C. Forrey, Christopher J. Fontes, Jeffery A. Leiding, David P. Kilcrease, P. Hakel, Eddy Timmermans

Published Oct 29, 2019• 0 citations
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