Towards the Solution of the Solar Neutrino Problem

Abstract

We discuss various aspects of the solar neutrino spectrum distortion and time variations of fluxes. (i) Oscillations of neutrinos which cross the mantle and the core of the Earth can be parametrically enhanced. The parametric effect gives correct physical interpretation of the calculated day-night asymmetry. (ii) Solution of the ${\nu }_{\odot }$-problem in schemes with three and more neutrinos which accommodate explanations of other neutrino anomalies, in particular, the atmospheric neutrino anomaly, can lead to complicated distortion of the boron neutrino spectrum. (iii) The study of correlations between time (seasonal or day-night) variations and spectrum distortion will help to identify the solution of the ${\nu }_{\odot }$-problem.

Comments: 10 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures. Invited talk presented at the Neutrino-98 conference, Takayama, Japan, June 1998. Several typos and eps file of fig.5 corrected; reference added