Octant sensitivity for large θ13 in atmospheric and long-baseline neutrino experiments

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Chatterjee, Animesh ^a   Ghoshal, Pomita ^b   Goswami, Srubabati ^b   Raut, Sushant K ^b  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

CP violation; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880371444     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)010     Document Type: Article

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