Short-baseline neutrino oscillation waves in ultra-large liquid scintillator detectors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar ^a   Conrad, J M ^b   Shaevitz, M H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Neutrino detectors and telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855213549     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)085     Document Type: Article

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