arXiv:astro-ph/9602065·v1·Astrophysics
How Does the Sun Shine?
J. N. Bahcall🇺🇸 · M. Fukugita🇺🇸 · P. I. Krastev🇺🇸
Abstract
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.
Comments: 15 pages (RevTeX) + 2 figures (postscript), uuencoded gz-compressed tar file including text+figures. Postscript file also available at http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/preprints.html Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B