The earth matter effects in neutrino oscillation experiments from Tokai to Kamioka and Korea

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hagiwara, Kaoru ^a,b   Okamura, Naotoshi ^c   Senda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053148179     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)082     Document Type: Article

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