The flavor of neutrinos in muon decays at a neutrino factory and the LSND puzzle

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Bueno, Antonio ^a   Campanelli, Mario ^b   Rico, Javier ^a   Rubbia, André ^a   Laveder, Marco ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Neutrino physics; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744551026     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/032     Document Type: Article

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