Solar Neutrinos Measured Ever More Precisely

Publication date: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 - 7:58am
The Borexino experiment at the Gran Sasso laboratory, which includes Professors Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar, has measured the Berillium-7 solar neutrinos with sufficient precision to directly test the rate of fusion reactions in the sun. With the recent observation of pep solar neutrinos predictions for the flavor oscillations of low energy neutrinos were confirmed. The results are published in a set of three papers: Phys Rev Lett 107 (2011) 141302, arXiv:1104.2150 and arXiv:1110.3230. ...more