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spellingShingle Mastroserio, Annalisa, EPJ Web of Conferences, Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, General Engineering, General Environmental Science
title Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
title_full Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
title_fullStr Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
title_full_unstemmed Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
title_short Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
title_sort search for a λnn bound state in pb-pb collisions with alice at the lhc
title_unstemmed Search for a Λnn bound state in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
topic General Earth and Planetary Sciences, General Engineering, General Environmental Science
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819200045