Published September 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Solar neutrinos

  • 1. Laboratoire astroparticule et cosmologie (APC), 75 - Paris (France)
  • 2. CEA Saclay, Dept. d'Astrophysique, de Physique des Particules, de Physique Nucleaire et de l'Instrumentation Associee, 91- Gif sur Yvette (France)
  • 3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (United States)

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Several decades of studies of solar neutrinos lead now to clear indications that the oscillation between νe produced in the core of the Sun and other flavours (νμ or ντ ) is the correct explanation of the deficit observed by all experiments. This implies that neutrinos are massive, in contradiction with the minimal standard model of particle physics. Moreover, thanks to the SNO (Sudbury neutrino observatory) experiment, we know that solar models built by astrophysicists predict correctly the flux of neutrinos. (authors)

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Original title (English)
Les neutrinos solaires

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Journal Title
Comptes Rendus. Physique
Journal Volume
6
Journal Issue
no.7
Journal Page Range
p. 729-738
ISSN
1631-0705

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