Variations on KamLAND: Likelihood analysis and frequentist confidence regions

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 577, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 120-128

  Schwetz, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

KamLAND reactor neutrino experiment; Neutrino oscillations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REACTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0344440782     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.024     Document Type: Article

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