Interactions between solar neutrinos and solar magnetic fields
Abstract
We attempt to correlate all of the available solar-neutrino data with the strong magnetic fields these neutrinos encounter in the solar interior along their Earth-bound path. We approximate these fields using the photospheric, magnetograph-measured flux from central latitude bands, time delayed to proxy the magnetic fields in the solar interior. Our strongest evidence for anticorrelation is for magnetic fields within the central ±5° solar-latitude band that have been delayed by 0.85 ± 0.55 yr. Assuming a neutrino-magnetic interaction, this might indicate that interior fields travel to the solar surface in this period of time. As more solar-neutrino flux information is gathered, the question of whether this result arises from a physical process or is merely a statistical fluke should be resolved, providing that new data are obtained spanning additional solar cycles and that correlation studies focus on these same regions of the solar magnetic field.
- Publication:
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Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0927-6505(97)00034-0
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9604252
- Bibcode:
- 1997APh.....7..297O
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, (+ 5 ps figs + aasms4.sty attached, uuencoded) Submitted to APJ