Diagram showing the Sun's components. The core is where nuclear fusion takes place, creating solar neutrinos.
A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed on Earth at any particular moment.[citation needed] Neutrinos are elementary particles with extremely small rest mass and a neutral electric charge. They only interact with matter via weak interaction and gravity, making their detection very difficult. This has led to the now-resolved solar neutrino problem. Much is now known about solar neutrinos, but research in this field is ongoing.
A solarneutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed...
The solarneutrino problem concerned a large discrepancy between the flux of solarneutrinos as predicted from the Sun's luminosity and as measured directly...
(6.5×1010) solarneutrinos, per second per square centimeter. Neutrinos can be used for tomography of the interior of the Earth. The neutrino was postulated...
pp and Be7 neutrinos they have measured only integral fluxes. The "holy grail" of solarneutrino experiments would detect the Be7 neutrinos with a detector...
contexts. Most notably, the existence of neutrino oscillation resolved the long-standing solarneutrino problem. Neutrino oscillation is of great theoretical...
Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The detector was designed to detect solarneutrinos through their interactions with a large tank of heavy water. The detector...
A neutrino detector is a physics apparatus which is designed to study neutrinos. Because neutrinos only weakly interact with other particles of matter...
core, except a small part carried out by neutrinos, must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as...
of the 5-15 MeV solarneutrinos. Second, water Čerenkov detectors offer real time event detection. This meant that individual neutrino-electron interaction...
underground particle physics experiment to study low energy (sub-MeV) solarneutrinos. The detector is the world's most radio-pure liquid scintillator calorimeter...
The solarneutrino unit (SNU) is a unit of Solarneutrino flux widely used in neutrino astronomy and radiochemical neutrino experiments. It is equal to...
predicted neutrino flux from the Sun could not be caused by flaws in stellar models and must instead be a problem of particle physics. The so-called solar neutrino...
founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solarneutrinos, providing...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The...
project. SolarNeutrino Experiment (Davis Experiment/Homestake Experiment): Raymond Davis Jr., a pioneer in neutrino research, built a solarneutrino detector...
Neutrino astronomy is the branch of astronomy that gathers information about astronomical objects by observing and studying neutrinos emitted by them...
referred to as the Davis experiment or SolarNeutrino Experiment and in original literature called Brookhaven SolarNeutrino Experiment or Brookhaven 37Cl (Chlorine)...
Professor, emeritus, University of Tokyo. A leader in the study of solar and atmospheric neutrinos, he was a scientist and director at Kamioka Observatory, Super-Kamiokande...
confirmation of this solution to the solarneutrino problem was provided in April 2002 by the SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) collaboration, which measured...
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