Reconciling results of LSND, MiniBooNE and other experiments with soft decoherence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Farzan, Yasaman ^a   Schwetz, Thomas ^b   Smirnov, Alexei Yu ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Neutrino physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749099581     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/067     Document Type: Article

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