Determination of the neutrino mass ordering by combining PINGU and Daya Bay II

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Blennow, Mattias ^a   Schwetz, Thomas ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884563210     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)089     Document Type: Article

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