Probing cosmic ray acceleration through molecular clouds in the vicinity of supernova remnant
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Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 110 F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, P.O. Box 103980, D 69029 Heidelberg, Germany Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), CNRS, Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Université Denis Diderot Paris 7, CNRS/IN2P3, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 5, France IRFU/DSM/CEA, CE Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France School of Chemistry & Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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