How Many Solar Neutrino Experiments Are Wrong?
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Ten recently-published solar models give neutrino fluxes that lie within a range of \% of the average value, a convergence that is independent of uncertainties in the measured laboratory rate of the reaction. If nothing happens to solar neutrinos after they are created ({\it a la} standard electroweak theory) and the operating solar neutrino experiments are correct, then the solar neutrino flux must be less than 50\% of the solar model value. At least three of the four existing solar neutrino experiments must be wrong {\it if}: (1) standard electroweak theory is correct, and (2) the true neutrino flux lies within the range predicted by standard solar models.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9407048,
title = {How Many Solar Neutrino Experiments Are Wrong?},
author = {John N. Bahcall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9407048},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Postscript file, 13 pages. Institute for Advanced Study number AST94-37