How Does the Sun Shine?
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Assuming that MSW neutrino oscillations occur and ignoring all solar physics except for the constraint that nuclear fusion produces the solar luminosity, we show that new solar neutrino experiments are required to rule out empirically the hypothesis that the sun shines via the CNO cycle.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9602065,
title = {How Does the Sun Shine?},
author = {J. N. Bahcall and M. Fukugita and P. I. Krastev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9602065},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages (RevTeX) + 2 figures (postscript), uuencoded gz-compressed tar file including text+figures. Postscript file also available at http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/preprints.html Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B