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All Time Top Cited High-Energy Physics Articles
1999 EditionBased on data from the SPIRES-HEP Literature Database, SLAC Library
High-energy physics articles with the most citations in the SPIRES-HEP database
Positions are based on the number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database [SLAC-SPIRES] between 1974 and 1999 (including both boundary years). Journal articles with more than 1,000 citations are included. The situation may change with time. For your convenience, pointers to today's number of citations are also added.
See also the list of articles with the most citations in 1999 and a review of the most cited HEP articles in 1999.
In a category of its own:
- REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS.
By Particle Data Group ( R.M.Barnett, et al.).
Earlier editions were titled 'Review of Particle Properties.'
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C3:1-794,1998
- 2300 citations to this edition on December 31, 1999.
- 11114 citations to the thirteen editions, 1974-1999, on December 31, 1999.
- (Number of citations to this edition today)
- (Number of citations to all editions today)
Other most cited papers:
- A MODEL OF LEPTONS
By S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
- 4982 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTION
By M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
Published in Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
- 3117 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- WEAK INTERACTIONS WITH LEPTON - HADRON SYMMETRY
By S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D2:1285-1292,1970
- 2798 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961
- 2491 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
By G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
- 2404 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- UNITY OF ALL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE FORCES
By H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.32:438-441,1974
- 2296 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- CONFINEMENT OF QUARKS
By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
- 2282 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. NONPERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN OPERATOR EXPANSION
By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:385,1979
- 2130 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
By H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
Published in Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
- 2082 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- LEPTON NUMBER AS THE FOURTH COLOR
By Jogesh C. Pati (Maryland U.), Abdus Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll., London).
Published in Phys.Rev.D10:275-289,1974
- 2001 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE
By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D14:3432-3450,1976 (Erratum-ibid D18:2199,1978)
- 2000 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- THE SEARCH FOR SUPERSYMMETRY: PROBING PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), G.L. Kane (Michigan U.).
Published in Phys.Rept.117:75,1985
- 1992 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. I
By Y. Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
Published in Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961
- 1933 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- INFINITE CONFORMAL SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
By A.A. Belavin, A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), A.B. Zamolodchikov (CERN & Landau Inst.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B241:333-380,1984
- 1846 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
By S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D7:1888-1910,1973
- 1805 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976
- 1796 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- RELIABLE PERTURBATIVE RESULTS FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS?
By H.D. Politzer (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1346-1349,1973
- 1773 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- ULTRAVIOLET BEHAVIOR OF NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1343-1346,1973
- 1763 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS
By Alan H. Guth (SLAC).
Published in Phys.Rev.D23:347-356,1981
- 1689 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- REGULARIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION OF GAUGE FIELDS
By G. 't Hooft, M. Veltman (Utrecht U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B44:189-213,1972
- 1663 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- AXIAL VECTOR VERTEX IN SPINOR ELECTRODYNAMICS
By S.L. Adler (Princeton U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.177:2426-2438,1969
- 1658 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- QUANTUM GEOMETRY OF BOSONIC STRINGS
By A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
Published in Phys.Lett.B103:207-210,1981
- 1594 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS
By P. Candelas (Texas U. & Santa Barbara, ITP), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara), Andrew Strominger (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B258:46-74,1985
- 1556 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. VECTOR NONET
By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:448,1979
- 1520 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- SUPER COLLIDER PHYSICS
By E. Eichten (Fermilab), I. Hinchliffe (LBL, Berkeley), K. Lane (Ohio State U.), C. Quigg (Fermilab).
Published in Rev.Mod.Phys.56:579-707,1984 (Addendum-ibid 58:1065-1073,1986)
- 1490 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS
By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
- 1511 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
- 1502 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- PSEUDOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS OF THE YANG-MILLS EQUATIONS
By A.A Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.S. Shvarts, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.).
Published in Phys.Lett.59B:85-87,1975
- 1497 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
By Julian Schwinger (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951
- 1493 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- A PCAC PUZZLE: PI0 --> GAMMA GAMMA IN THE SIGMA MODEL
By J.S. Bell, R. Jackiw (CERN).
Published in Nuovo Cim.A60:47-61,1969
- 1474 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
- 1388 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- HADRON MASSES IN A GAUGE THEORY
By A. De Rujula, Howard Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D12:147-162,1975
- 1380 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- SYMMETRY BEHAVIOR AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
By L. Dolan, R. Jackiw (MIT, LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3320-3341,1974
- 1347 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC D = 10 GAUGE THEORY REQUIRE SO(32)
By Michael B. Green (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll. & Cal Tech), John H. Schwarz (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Lett.149B:117-122,1984
- 1338 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
Published in Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975
- 1328 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- CONSEQUENCES OF ANOMALOUS WARD IDENTITIES
By J. Wess (CERN & Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
Published in Phys.Lett.37B:95,1971
- 1313 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.3: AN UPDATE
By Torbjorn Sjostrand, Mats Bengtsson (Lund U.).
Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.43:367,1987
- 1307 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- QUARK MASSES
By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.).
Published in Phys.Rept.87:77-169,1982
- 1299 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- A NEW EXTENDED MODEL OF HADRONS
By A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, C.B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3471-3495,1974
- 1274 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- HETEROTIC STRING THEORY. 1. THE FREE HETEROTIC STRING
By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B256:253,1985
- 1270 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- CP CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF INSTANTONS
By R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.38:1440-1443,1977
- 1251 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- PARTON FRAGMENTATION AND STRING DYNAMICS
By B. Andersson, G. Gustafson, G. Ingelman, T. Sjostrand (Lund U.).
Published in Phys.Rept.97:31,1983
- 1229 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- NONABELIAN BOSONIZATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONS
By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
Published in Commun.Math.Phys.92:455-472,1984
- 1224 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP AND THE EPSILON EXPANSION
By K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), J. Kogut (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Phys.Rept.12:75-200,1974
- 1189 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- HIERARCHY OF INTERACTIONS IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
By H. Georgi, H.R. Quinn, S. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:451-454,1974
- 1182 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF A HEAVY PARTICLE J
By J.J. Aubert, U. Becker, P.J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T.G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, Samuel C.C. Ting, Sau Lan Wu (MIT, LNS), Y.Y. Lee (Brookhaven).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1404-1406,1974
- 1179 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. I
By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Fermilab & Princeton U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D8:3633-3652,1973
- 1167 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- GLOBAL ASPECTS OF CURRENT ALGEBRA
By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B223:422,1983
- 1167 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY: EXPANSIONS IN THE MASS OF THE STRANGE QUARK
By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B250:465,1985
- 1161 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY TO ONE LOOP
By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
Published in Annals Phys.158:142,1984
- 1160 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- EXCLUSIVE PROCESSES IN PERTURBATIVE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
By G.Peter Lepage (Cornell U., LNS), Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC).
Published in Phys.Rev.D22:2157,1980
- 1159 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- DYNAMICAL BREAKING OF SUPERSYMMETRY
By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B188:513,1981
- 1153 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- A PARAMETRIZATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUARK JETS
By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Cal Tech).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B136:1,1978
- 1151 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- VORTEX LINE MODELS FOR DUAL STRINGS
By H.B. Nielsen, P. Olesen (Bohr Inst.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B61:45-61,1973
- 1148 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- ELECTRIC - MAGNETIC DUALITY, MONOPOLE CONDENSATION, AND CONFINEMENT IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY
By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994 (Erratum-ibid B430:485-486,1994)
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9407087
- 1119 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- THE HETEROTIC STRING
By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.54:502-505,1985
- 1110 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- THE LARGE N LIMIT OF SUPERCONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES AND SUPERGRAVITY
By Juan Maldacena (Harvard U.).
Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9711200
- 1110 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- DISCOVERY OF A NARROW RESONANCE IN E+ E- ANNIHILATION
By J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, F. Bulos, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, G.E. Fischer, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, B. Jean-Marie, Rudolf R. Larsen, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, Burton Richter, Petros A. Rapidis, R. Schwitters, W.M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC), G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, B. Lulu, F. Pierre, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1406-1408,1974
- 1103 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE, SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING THEORY
By Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Stephen Shenker (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & Princeton U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B271:93,1986
- 1083 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- WEAK DECAYS OF HEAVY MESONS IN THE STATIC QUARK APPROXIMATION
By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Lett.B232:113,1989
- 1081 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- SUPERGAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN FOUR-DIMENSIONS
By J. Wess (Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B70:39-50,1974
- 1081 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- MASSES AND OTHER PARAMETERS OF THE LIGHT HADRONS
By T. DeGrand, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, J. Kiskis (MIT, LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.D12:2060,1975
- 1065 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND THE JONES POLYNOMIAL
By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Commun.Math.Phys.121:351,1989
- 1056 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE GAUGE THEORIES
By S. Deser (Brandeis U.), R. Jackiw, S. Templeton (MIT, LNS).
Published in Annals Phys.140:372-411,1982 (Erratum-ibid 185:406,1988)
- 1055 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.2
By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U.).
Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.39:347-407,1986
- 1049 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- UNITARY SYMMETRY AND LEPTONIC DECAYS
By N. Cabibbo (CERN).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.10:531-532,1963
- 1037 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- Q**2 DEPENDENT PARAMETRIZATIONS OF PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
By D.W. Duke, J.F. Owens (Florida State U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D30:49-54,1984
- 1021 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- NONLAGRANGIAN MODELS OF CURRENT ALGEBRA
By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.179:1499-1512,1969
- 1020 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- DYNAMICS OF SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING IN THE WEINBERG-SALAM THEORY
By Leonard Susskind (SLAC).
Published in Phys.Rev.D20:2619-2625,1979
- 1016 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- STRINGS IN BACKGROUND FIELDS
By C.G. Callan, E.J. Martinec, M.J. Perry (Princeton U.), D. Friedan (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B262:593,1985
- 1010 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
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- PARTICLE SPECTRUM IN THE QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
By A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
Published in JETP Lett.20:194-195,1974 (Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.20:430-433,1974)
- 1009 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
- WEAK TRANSITION FORM-FACTORS BETWEEN HEAVY MESONS
By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Lett.B237:527,1990
- 1009 citations on 31 Dec 1999.
- (Number of citations today)
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