An incremental approach to unravel the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation with a long-baseline superbeam for large θ13

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar ^a   Li, Tracey ^a   Rubbia, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CP violation; Neutrino physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861846611     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)154     Document Type: Article

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