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Matter effect in neutrino oscillations for long-baseline experiments

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This paper is devoted to the matter effect and its role in Long-Baseline experiments. As examples, the NOvA and DUNE experiments will be discussed.

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Kolupaeva, L., Samoylov, O. & Shandrov, I. Matter effect in neutrino oscillations for long-baseline experiments. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 14, 975–980 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S154747711707007X

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