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Development and technical paper
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21 Jan 2026
Development and technical paper |
| 21 Jan 2026
| 21 Jan 2026
Threshold atmospheric electric fields for initiating relativistic runaway electron avalanches: theoretical estimates and CORSIKA simulations
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