scholarly journals Dark matter and the solar neutrino problem: Can particle physics provide a single solution

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.B. West
1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (20) ◽  
pp. 1543-1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID O. CALDWELL

The particle constituting probably more than 90% of the mass of the universe is unknown in the Standard Model of particle physics. Non-accelerator experiments, particularly those using Ge and Si detectors, and accelerator experiments, especially at SLC and LEP, have eliminated as dark matter wide classes of candidate particles. Examples are weak isodoublet neutrinos of mass ≳30 eV/c 2, sneutrinos, technibaryons, microcharged shadow matter, and probably Cosmions, which could both be dark matter and solve the solar neutrino problem.


1991 ◽  
Vol 368 ◽  
pp. 626 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dearborn ◽  
Kim Griest ◽  
Georg Raffelt

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (22) ◽  
pp. 5387-5459 ◽  
Author(s):  
PALASH B. PAL

This review has four parts. In Part I, we describe the reactions that produce neutrinos in the sun and the expected flux of those neutrinos on the earth. We then discuss the detection of these neutrinos, and how the results obtained differ from the theoretical expectations, leading to what is known as the solar neutrino problem. In Part II, we show how neutrino oscillations can provide a solution to the solar neutrino problem. This includes vacuum oscillations, as well as matter enhanced oscillations. In Part III, we discuss the possibility of time variation of the neutrino flux and how a magnetic moment of the neutrino can explain the phenomenon. We also discuss particle physics models which can give rise to the required values of magnetic moments. In Part IV, we present some concluding remarks and outlook for the near future.


1990 ◽  
Vol 339 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Bartlett ◽  
Marcelo Gleiser ◽  
Joseph Silk

1985 ◽  
Vol 299 ◽  
pp. 1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Krauss ◽  
K. Freese ◽  
D. N. Spergel ◽  
W. H. Press

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