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An Explanation for the Solar Neutrino Problem—a New Mechanism of Thermonuclear Reaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Hongzhang Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Huaihai University, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China

Abstract

A new mechanism of thermonuclear reaction is briefly introduced. It shows that a certain amount of thermonuclear reaction can take place in dense, low temperature (T < 1 × 105 K) plasmas. As most regions in the Sun are at moderate and low temperature, a sufficient amount of fusion energy is generated there. Therefore, the current standard solar models, in which the solar central temperature must be slightly lower than 15 × 106 K, must be modified, and this would make the flux of high-energy neutrinos conform with the observational results.

Type
Solar & Solar System
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

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