What can be learned by measuring the fluxes of the {sup 7}Be and the pep solar neutrino lines?
- School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States)
Measurements of the interaction rates of the solar neutrino lines of {sup 7}Be and pep can be used, independent of solar models, to test whether electron flavor is conserved, to determine survival probabilities of electron-type neutrinos at specific energies, and to test for the existence of sterile neutrinos. We present analytic descriptions of these tests. We also illustrate by numerical simulations, assuming matter-enhanced and vacuum neutrino oscillations, what measurements of solar neutrino lines can teach us about neutrino masses and mixing angles. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 450514
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Vol. 55, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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