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How does the Sun shine?
1989
Nature
Assuming that MSW neutrino oscillations occur and ignoring all solar physics except for the constraint that nuclear fusion produces the solar luminosity, we show that new solar neutrino experiments are required to rule out empirically the hypothesis that the sun shines via the CNO cycle. In 1939, Bethe [1] showed that the energy required to enable the sun to shine for several billion years could be obtained by two alternative sets of reactions, which have come to be known as the pp chain and
doi:10.1038/340265a0
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