New limit of $^{244}$Pu on Earth points to rarity of actinide nucleosynthesis
@inproceedings{Wallner2015NewLO, title={New limit of \$^\{244\}\$Pu on Earth points to rarity of actinide nucleosynthesis}, author={Anton Wallner and Th. Faestermann and Jenny Feige and Cyril Feldstein and Klaus Knie and G. Korschinek and Walter Kutschera and Avishai Ofan and M. Paul and Francesca Quinto and Georg Rugel and Peter Steier}, year={2015} }
A. Wallner, 2, ∗ T. Faestermann, J. Feige, C. Feldstein, K. Knie, 5 G. Korschinek, W. Kutschera, A. Ofan, M. Paul, F. Quinto, † G. Rugel, ‡ and P. Steier Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 17, A-1090, Austria Technische Universität München, D-85747 Garching, Germany Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem…
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