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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Solar neutrinos

Focus on Neutrino Physics

A B McDonald

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Part of Focus on Neutrino Physics

A review of solar neutrino experiments is provided, including experimental measurements to date and proposed future measurements. Experiments to date have provided a clear indication that solar neutrinos are undergoing flavour transformation and that the dominant mechanism for this transformation is oscillation. The mixing parameters are well defined and limits are placed on sub-dominant modes. The measurements also provide strong confirmation of solar model calculations. New experiments under development will study neutrino oscillation parameters and sub-dominant modes with greater precision and will investigate solar fluxes further, concentrating primarily on the low energy pp, 7Be, pep and CNO reactions.


PACS

96.60.Vg Particle emission, solar wind

96.50.Vg Energetic particles

95.30.Cq Elementary particle processes

96.50.S- Cosmic rays

96.60.Jw Solar interior

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 1 (September 2004)

Received 10 May 2004

Published 23 September 2004



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