Abstract
The complete and concurrent Homestake and Kamiokande solar neutrino data sets (including backgrounds), when compared to detailed model predictions, provide no unambiguous indication of the solution to the solar neutrino problem. All neutrino-based solutions, including time-varying models, provide reasonable fits to both the 3-yr concurrent data and the full 20-yr data set. A simple constant B neutrino flux reduction from the standard solar model mean prediction is ruled out at greater than the 4σ level for both data sets. While such a flux reduction provides a marginal fit to the unweighted averages of the concurrent data, it does not provide a good fit to the average of the full 20-yr sample. Gallium experiments may not be able to distinguish between the currently allowed neutrino-based possibilities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1263-1273 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Solar neutrino data and their implications. / Gates, Evalyn; Krauss, Lawrence; White, Martin.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 46, No. 4, 1992, p. 1263-1273.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Solar neutrino data and their implications
AU - Gates, Evalyn
AU - Krauss, Lawrence
AU - White, Martin
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - The complete and concurrent Homestake and Kamiokande solar neutrino data sets (including backgrounds), when compared to detailed model predictions, provide no unambiguous indication of the solution to the solar neutrino problem. All neutrino-based solutions, including time-varying models, provide reasonable fits to both the 3-yr concurrent data and the full 20-yr data set. A simple constant B neutrino flux reduction from the standard solar model mean prediction is ruled out at greater than the 4σ level for both data sets. While such a flux reduction provides a marginal fit to the unweighted averages of the concurrent data, it does not provide a good fit to the average of the full 20-yr sample. Gallium experiments may not be able to distinguish between the currently allowed neutrino-based possibilities.
AB - The complete and concurrent Homestake and Kamiokande solar neutrino data sets (including backgrounds), when compared to detailed model predictions, provide no unambiguous indication of the solution to the solar neutrino problem. All neutrino-based solutions, including time-varying models, provide reasonable fits to both the 3-yr concurrent data and the full 20-yr data set. A simple constant B neutrino flux reduction from the standard solar model mean prediction is ruled out at greater than the 4σ level for both data sets. While such a flux reduction provides a marginal fit to the unweighted averages of the concurrent data, it does not provide a good fit to the average of the full 20-yr sample. Gallium experiments may not be able to distinguish between the currently allowed neutrino-based possibilities.
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JO - Physical review D: Particles and fields
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