Neutrino decays over cosmological distances and the implications for neutrino telescopes

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Baerwald, Philipp ^a   Bustamante, Mauricio ^a   Winter, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cosmological neutrinos; gamma ray bursts theory; neutrino astronomy; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868251063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/10/020     Document Type: Article

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