The high energy neutrino cross-section in the Standard Model and its uncertainty

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Cooper Sarkar, Amanda ^a   Mertsch, Philipp ^a   Sarkar, Subir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep Inelastic Scattering; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053134353     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)042     Document Type: Article

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