Mass hierarchy discrimination with atmospheric neutrinos in large volume ice/water Cherenkov detectors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Franco, D ^a   Jollet, C ^b   Kouchner, A ^a   Kulikovskiy, V ^a,c   Meregaglia, A ^b   Perasso, S ^a   Pradier, T ^b   Tonazzo, A ^a   Van Elewyck, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876368561     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)008     Document Type: Article

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