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Current Status of the Solar Neutrino Problem with Super-Kamiokande

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We perform an updated model-independent analysis using the latest solar neutrino data obtained by 37^{37}Cl and 71^{71}Ga radiochemical experiments, and most notably by a large water-Cherenkov detector SuperKamiokande with their 504 days of data taking. We confirm that the astrophysical solutions to the solar neutrino problem are extremely disfavored by the data and a low-temperature modification of the standard solar model is excluded by more than 5 σ\sigma. We also propose a new way of illuminating the suppression pattern of various solar neutrino flux without invoking detailed flavor conversion mechanisms. It indicates that the strong suppression of 7^7Be neutrinos is no more true when the neutrino flavor conversion is taken into account.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810387,
  title  = {Current Status of the Solar Neutrino Problem with Super-Kamiokande},
  author = {Hisakazu Minakata and Hiroshi Nunokawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810387},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTex file, 10 pages, 7 postscript figures