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Solar neutrinos: a field in transition

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Solar-neutrino experiments provide a unique opportunity for studying weak interactions in a realm where new physics may be revealed. At the same time the neutrinos carry important information about the physical processes occurring in the otherwise inaccessible core of a main-sequence star. A variety of experiments, electronic and radiochemical, must be carried out to determine what new physics and astronomy are being uncovered with these underground detectors.

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    John N. Bahcall

  2. Astronomy Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

    Raymond Davis Jr

  3. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, USA

    Lincoln Wolfenstein

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Bahcall, J., Davis, R. & Wolfenstein, L. Solar neutrinos: a field in transition. Nature 334, 487–493 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/334487a0

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