Earth matter effect in Be solar neutrino experiments

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  De Gouvêa, André ^a   Friedland, Alexander ^b   Murayama, Hitoshi ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744899382     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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