Interplay of energy dependent astrophysical neutrino flavor ratios and new physics effects

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Mehta, Poonam ^a   Winter, Walter ^b  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

neutrino properties; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953663888     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/03/041     Document Type: Article

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