Polymerisation and the solar neutrino problem

Neutrino oscillations and the solar-neutrino problem.

I describe the current status of the solar neutrino problem, summarizing the arguments that its resolution will require new particle physics. The phenomenon of matter-enhanced neutrino oscillations is reviewed. I consider the implications of current experiments – including the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino and LSND measurements – and the need for additional constraints from SNO and other...

Neutrino Oscillations and the Solar Neutrino Problem

I describe the current status of the solar neutrino problem, summarizing the arguments that its resolution will require new particle physics. The phenomenon of matter-enhanced neutrino oscillations is reviewed. I consider the implications of current experiments – including the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino and LSND measurements – and the need for additional constraints from SNO and other...

The Solar Neutrino Problem

Solving the solar neutrino problem.

Building a detector the size of a 10-story building two kilometers underground is a strange way to study solar phenomena. Yet that has turned out to be the key to unlocking a decades-old puzzle about the physical processes occurring inside the sun. English physicist Arthur Eddington suggested as early as 1920 that nuclear fusion powered the sun, but efforts to confirm critical details of this i...

On Solar Neutrino Problem

The current neutrino oscillation theory asserts that neutrinos are massive subatomic particles, and can undergo their flavor oscillation. First in this article, we examine carefully the current oscillation theory, and argue that a massless neutrino oscillation mechanism based on the Weyl equations for neutrinos is also a feasible theory. This massless neutrino oscillation mechanism resolves bot...