Optimizing the greenfield Beta-beam

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar ^a,b   Choubey, Sandhya ^a   Raychaudhuri, Amitava ^a,b   Winter, Walter ^c  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neutrino physics; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249103372     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/090     Document Type: Article

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