The search for heavy Majorana neutrinos

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Atre, Anupama ^a,b   Han, Tao ^b,c,d   Pascoli, Silvia ^e   Zhang, Bin ^d  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Neutrino physics; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649522405     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/030     Document Type: Article

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