Unsterile-active neutrino mixing: Consequences on radiative decay and bounds from the x-ray background

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Boyanovsky, D ^a   Holman, R ^b   Hutasoit, Jimmy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69249149227     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.025012     Document Type: Article

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