Bounds on heavy sterile neutrinos revisited

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 11, 2005, Pages 645-659

  Kusenko, Alexander ^a   Pascoli, Silvia ^b,c   Semikoz, Dmitry ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645526102     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/028     Document Type: Article

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