Large matter effects in νμ → ντ oscillations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Gandhi, Raj ^a   Ghoshal, Pomita ^a   Goswami, Srubabati ^a   Mehta, Poonam ^a,b   Sankar, S Uma ^c  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO MEASUREMENTS; MATTER EFFECTS; NEUTRINO PROBABILITIES; PRELIMINARY REFERENCE EARTH MODEL (PREM);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALORIMETERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 18144379851     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.051801     Document Type: Article

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