Solar neutrinos: status and prospects

Marianne Goeger
2015 Proceedings of XIII Nuclei in the Cosmos — PoS(NIC XIII)   unpublished
The Sun is an ideal laboratory for the study of fundamental neutrino properties, as well as neutrinos are unique messengers from the solar core. Over the last forty years, the study of solar neutrinos has significantly contributed to progress in both astrophysics and elementary particle physics. After the establishment of neutrino oscillations as the solution of the Solar Neutrino Problem, the focus of current solar neutrino experiments lies on the improvement of the astrophysical model of the
more » ... olar interior, the standard Solar Model. Open questions, like the vacuum-to-matter transition of the solar neutrino oscillations, or the solar metallicity problem, can be addressed by a precise determination of the solar neutrino fluxes in the low and intermediate energy region (< 4 MeV). In this context, I will summarize the recent results from SNO, SuperKamiokande and Borexino.
doi:10.22323/1.204.0180 fatcat:tgypzyxgcjdzdfvylahgifc5f4