Determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy in the regime of small matter effect

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Schwetz, Thomas ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neutrino physics; Solar and atmospheric neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547576567     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/093     Document Type: Article

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