Neutral-to-charged current events ratio in atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino oscillations

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

Volumn 432, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 376-382

  Vissani, Francesco ^a,b   Smirnov, Alexei Yu ^a,c  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0347805088     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00650-9     Document Type: Article

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