Determination of mass hierarchy with medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ge, Shao Feng ^a   Hagiwara, Kaoru ^a,b,f   Okamura, Naotoshi ^c,d   Takaesu, Yoshitaro ^e,f  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^f Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878923100     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)131     Document Type: Article

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