Spontaneous breaking of flavor symmetry and naturalness of nearly degenerate neutrino masses and bi-maximal mixing

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 988-995

  Wu, Yueliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Lepton flavor violation; Neutrino masses and oscillations; SO(3) gauge symmetry; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042188550     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02879805     Document Type: Article

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