Explaining LSND by a decaying sterile neutrino

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Pascoli, Silvia ^b   Schwetz, Thomas ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044455379     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/048     Document Type: Article

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