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Probing the Sun's inner core using solar neutrinos: a new diagnostic method

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2013-10-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The electronic density in the Sun's inner core is inferred from the 8B, 7Be and pep neutrino flux measurements of the Super-Kamiokande, SNO and Borexino experiments. We have developed a new method in which we use the KamLAND detector determinations of the neutrino fundamental oscillation parameters: the mass difference and the vacuum oscillation angle. Our results suggest that the solar electronic density in the Sun's inner core (for a radius smaller than 10% of the solar radius) is well above the current prediction of the standard solar model, and by as much as 25%. A potential confirmation of these preliminary findings can be achieved when neutrino detectors are able to reduce the error of the electron-neutrino survival probability by a factor of 15.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3346,
  title  = {Probing the Sun's inner core using solar neutrinos: a new diagnostic method},
  author = {Ilídio Lopes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3346},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 1 table, 4 figures http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013PhRvD..88d5006L