Popular accounts of solar neutrino research


Solving the Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:This article was published April 28, 2004 at the site of the Nobel e-Museum
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Solar Neutrinos

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal: Encyclopedia of Physics, 3rd edition, Vol. 2, eds. G. Trigg and R. Lerner (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2005), p. 2242.

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This article summarizes in terms appropriate for an encyclopedia article the present state of solar neutrino research.
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Searching for Neutrinos Beyond the Textbooks

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal: in Freedman and Kaufmann's Universe, 7th edition (W. H. Freeman and Company 2004), p. 407.

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Neutrinos reveal split personalities

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:Nature, 412, 29-31 (July 5, 2001).

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For more than 30 years scientists have puzzled over the mystery of the missing neutrinos emitted from the Sun. Data from underground detectors in Canada and Japan combine to provide the answer.

Solar Neutrinos

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:At this website http://www.ency-astro.com and Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2001), Vol. 3, 2593-2602.

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This encyclopedia article answers the following questions: Why study solar neutrinos? What does the combined standard model tell us about solar neutrinos? Why are the predicted rates so robust? What are the three solar neutrino problems? What have we learned? What next?

Solar Neutrinos

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th edition, 16 (2002).

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A recent non-technical account of where we are with solar neutrinos.

What have we learned about solar neutrinos?

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:Beamline (Fall 1994), 10-18.

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A popular account of the lessons learned from solar neutrino research.

High noon for solar neutrinos

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:New Scientist, No. 1834, 28-32 (15 August 1992).

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This review is a popular account of the basics of solar neutrino research and describes my view of the solar neutrino problems after the first reports (in 1992) of the GALLEX and SAGE gallium experiments. Contains no equations, but does have some illustrative figures. (The title was chosen by New Scientist).

Neutrinos from the sun: an astronomical puzzle

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:Mercury, XIX, Number 2, pp. 53-63 (March/April 1990).

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This non-technical introduction to solar neutrino research was written for amateur astronomers. The goal was to explain to explain to someone who probably had not previously encountered the concept of a neutrino why doing research on solar neutrinos is such an exciting activity. The journal Mercury took this occassion to publish some photographs of some solar neutrino researchers and their equipment from 1964 to 1990.

How does the sun shine?

Author(s):John N. Bahcall
Journal:Nature, Vol. 340, 265-266 (27 July, 1989). A summary of the conference on Inside the Sun held in Versailles, 22-26, May 1989.

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This article reports, in an invited commentary for Nature, my impression in the spring of 1989 of `a surprising consolidation of conventional wisdom in the face of an avalanche of new experimental and theoretical results...the theoretical calculations improve, the data become more precise and the systematic uncertainties are better understood.'' The main emphasis is this article is on the agreement between observations of solar oscillations (helioseismology) and standard solar models on the one hand and the disagreement between solar models and neutrino observations on the other hand. The importance of the new Kamiokande measurement of the higher-energy solar neutrino flux is emphasized.


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