Does the sun shine by pp or CNO fusion reactions?

نویسندگان

  • John N Bahcall
  • M C Gonzalez-Garcia
  • Carlos Peña-Garay
چکیده

We show that solar neutrino experiments set an upper limit of 7.8% (7.3% including the recent KamLAND measurements) to the fraction of energy that the Sun produces via the CNO fusion cycle, which is an order of magnitude improvement upon the previous limit. New experiments are required to detect CNO neutrinos corresponding to the 1.5% of the solar luminosity that the standard solar model predicts is generated by the CNO cycle.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 90 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003