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Neutrino Interactions

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 نشر من قبل Kevin S. McFarland
 تاريخ النشر 2008
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This manuscript summarizes a series of three lectures on interactions of neutrinos . The lectures begin with a pedagogical foundation and then explore topics of interest to current and future neutrino oscillation and cross-section experiments.

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