Quantum-gravity decoherence effects in neutrino oscillations: Expected constraints from CNGS and J-PARC

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Mavromatos, Nick E ^a   Meregaglia, Anselmo ^b,c   Rubbia, André ^b   Sakharov, Alexander S ^b,d   Sarkar, Sarben ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 41549130808     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.053014     Document Type: Article

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