An explanation for the solar neutrino problem

✍ Scribed by Wang Hong-Zhang

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 398 KB
• Volume: 140
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00148441

✦ Synopsis

A new mechanism of thermonuclear reaction is briefly introduced. It shows that a certain amount of thermonuclear reaction can take place in dense, low-temperature (T < 1 • 10 s K) plasmas. At a super high temperature, it is in agreement with the old thermonuclear reaction mechanism first presented by Gamew and Bethe. As most regions in the Sun are at moderate and low temperature, a sufficient amount of fusion energy is generated therein. Therefore the solar central temperature in standard models must be decreased to about 13.8 • i0 ~ K. That would make the flux of high-energy neutrinos conform with the observational results.