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P Faccioli1, S a Beccara2

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trento, Via Sommarive 14 Povo, Trento, 38123 Italy; Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (INFN-TIFPA), Via Sommarive 14 Povo, Trento, 38123 Italy.

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