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Generating primordial magnetic fields from superconducting cosmic strings. / Dimopoulos, Konstantinos.
COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe. World Scientific, 1998. p. 411-413.

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Dimopoulos, K 1998, Generating primordial magnetic fields from superconducting cosmic strings. in COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe. World Scientific, pp. 411-413.

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Dimopoulos, K. (1998). Generating primordial magnetic fields from superconducting cosmic strings. In COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe (pp. 411-413). World Scientific.

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Dimopoulos K. Generating primordial magnetic fields from superconducting cosmic strings. In COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe. World Scientific. 1998. p. 411-413

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Dimopoulos, Konstantinos. / Generating primordial magnetic fields from superconducting cosmic strings. COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe. World Scientific, 1998. pp. 411-413

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