On the origin of transient effects in the solar neutrino experiment
Abstract
Correlation studies of the pattern of time variation of the recorded solar neutrino flux monitored through the reaction Cl37→ Ar37 with various parameters of solar activity is suggestive of possible emission of a penetrating neutral particle from the sun influencing directly or indirectly the transformation Cl37→ Ar37 deep underground at the required rates. This possibility has to be invoked in view of the difficulties in generating the observed pattern of variations through a large modulatory mechanism involving the electron neutrino. The prediction that follows is the possible existence of a time varying component (diurnal) in the rate of some nuclear transmutations deep underground caused by an unknown neutral radiation having an interaction cross section with matter probably much larger than the canonical value of 10-36cm2 per nucleon for the sun.
- Publication:
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Astronomische Nachrichten
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1002/asna.2113090605
- Bibcode:
- 1988AN....309..363S
- Keywords:
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- Neutral Particles;
- Nuclear Transformations;
- Solar Activity;
- Solar Neutrinos;
- Argon Isotopes;
- Chlorine;
- Nuclear Reactions;
- Solar Flux;
- Solar Physics