Earth matter effects at very long baselines and the neutrino mass hierarchy

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

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

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

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EID: 33644616383     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.053001     Document Type: Article

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