Optimized two-baseline β-beam experiment

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Choubey, Sandhya ^a   Coloma, Pilar ^b,c   Donini, Andrea ^c   Fernandez Martinez, Enrique ^d  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA TEÓRICA UAM CSIC   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CP violation; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549151968     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/020     Document Type: Article

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