Exotic massive hadrons and ultra-high energy cosmic rays
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X iv :h ep -p h/ 98 05 28 8v 1 1 1 M ay 1 99 8 Exotic massive hadrons and ultra-high energy cosmic rays Ivone F. M. Albuquerque Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Glennys R. Farrar Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855 Edward W. Kolb NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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