NOνA plus T2K: The race for the neutrino mass hierarchy

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Mena, Olga ^a   Nunokawa, Hiroshi ^b   Parke, Stephen ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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EID: 33846847466     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.033002     Document Type: Article

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