A realistic model of neutrino masses with a large neutrinoless double beta decay rate

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Del Aguila, Francisco ^a   Aparici, Alberto ^b   Bhattacharya, Subhaditya ^c   Santamaria, Arcadi ^b   Wudka, Jose ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs physics; Neutrino physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861824621     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)133     Document Type: Article

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