Tau neutrinos underground: Signals of νμ→ντ oscillations with extragalactic neutrinos

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1-20

  Dutta, Sharada Iyer ^a   Reno, Mary Hall ^b   Sarcevic, Ina ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 18144407298     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.123001     Document Type: Article

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