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A Lithium Experiment as the Stringent Test of the Theory of Stellar Evolution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that a lithium experiment has a potential to confirm or reject the value 1.5% of the solar luminosity attributed to a CNO-cycle by the SSM and to prove that the difference between total energy release of the Sun and what is produced in a hydrogen sequence is really produced in CNO cycle. This will be the stringent test of the theory of stellar evolution and the termination of the long-standing goal - the neutrino spectroscopy of the interior of the Sun. At the present time one can see no other way to solve this task, it can be accomplished only with a lithium detector utilizing its high sensitivity to CNO-neutrinos and very high accuracy in the theoretical evaluation of the cross-section of neutrino capture by 7Li. The analyses shows that although a lithium detector is a radiochemical one, principally it is possible to find separately the fluxes of 13N- and 15O-neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0301016,
  title  = {A Lithium Experiment as the Stringent Test of the Theory of Stellar Evolution},
  author = {Anatoly Kopylov and Valery Petukhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0301016},
  year   = {2007}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures