Light sterile neutrinos and short baseline neutrino oscillation anomalies

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Fan, Jiji ^a   Langacker, Paul ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860315164     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)083     Document Type: Article

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