Do the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino results explain electric charge quantization?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 1999, Pages

  Foot, R ^a   Volkas, R R ^a  

^a School of Physics   (Australia)

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EID: 85037916549     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.097301     Document Type: Article

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