Majoron emission in muon and tau decays revisited

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hirsch, M ^a   Vicente, A ^a   Meyer, J ^b   Porod, W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 65249183136     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.055023     Document Type: Article

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