TeV scale see-saw mechanisms of neutrino mass generation, the Majorana nature of the heavy singlet neutrinos and (ββ) 0ν-decay

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ibarra, A ^a   Molinaro, E ^b,c,d   Petcov, S T ^b,c,e,f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856367855     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)108     Document Type: Article

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