Experimental bounds on sterile neutrino mixing angles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ruchayskiy, Oleg ^a   Ivashko, Artem ^b,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Neutrino physics; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864226296     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)100     Document Type: Article

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