Reassessing the sensitivity to leptonic CP violation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Blennow, Mattias ^a   Coloma, Pilar ^b   Fernandez Martinez, Enrique ^c,d  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA TEÓRICA UAM CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

CP violation; Neutrino Physics; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938061871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2015)005     Document Type: Article

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