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Managing Editor Gerhard H¨ohler Institut f¨ur Theoretische Teilchenphysik Universit¨at Karlsruhe Postfach 69 80 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 (7 21) 6 08 33 75 Fax: +49 (7 21) 37 07 26 Email:
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Elementary Particle Physics, Editors Johann H. K¨uhn Institut f¨ur Theoretische Teilchenphysik Universit¨at Karlsruhe Postfach 69 80 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 (7 21) 6 08 33 72 Fax: +49 (7 21) 37 07 26 Email:
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Thomas M¨uller Institut f¨ur Experimentelle Kernphysik Fakult¨at f¨ur Physik Universit¨at Karlsruhe Postfach 69 80 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 (7 21) 6 08 35 24 Fax: +49 (7 21) 6 07 26 21 Email:
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Fundamental Astrophysics, Editor Joachim Tr¨umper Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Extraterrestrische Physik Postfach 13 12 85741 Garching, Germany Phone: +49 (89) 30 00 35 59 Fax: +49 (89) 30 00 33 15 Email:
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Solid-State Physics, Editors Atsushi Fujimori Editor for The Pacific Rim Department of Physics University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Email:
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C. Varma Editor for The Americas Department of Physics University of California Riverside, CA 92521 Phone: +1 (951) 827-5331 Fax: +1 (951) 827-4529 Email:
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Peter W¨olfle Institut f¨ur