A simple analytic three-flavour description of the day-night effect in the solar neutrino flux

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1299-1318

  Akhmedov, E Kh ^a,b   Tórtola, Maria A ^a   Valle, José W F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144439039     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/057     Document Type: Article

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