Late time Neutrino masses, the LSND experiment, and the cosmic microwave background

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Chacko, Z ^a,b   Hall, Lawrence J ^a,b   Oliver, Steven J ^a,b   Perelstein, Maxim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVES; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR NEUTRINO DETECTOR (LSND); NEUTRINO MASSES; NONRELATIVISTIC;

ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 18044381936     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111801     Document Type: Article

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