Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 504715, 24 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/504715
Review Article
Atmospheric Neutrinos
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and Kavli-IPMU, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
Received 8 July 2012; Accepted 11 September 2012
Academic Editor: Koichiro Nishikawa
Copyright © 2012 Takaaki Kajita. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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