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On the origin of transient effects in the solar neutrino experiment
Author(s) -
Subramanian A.,
Lal Siddeshwar,
Yvas P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.2113090605
Subject(s) - physics , neutrino , electron neutrino , wimp , solar neutrino , astrophysics , flux (metallurgy) , nucleon , nuclear physics , dark matter , neutrino oscillation , chemistry , organic chemistry
Correlation studies of the pattern of time variation of the recorded solar neutrino flux monitored through the reaction Cl 37 → Ar 37 with various parameters of solar activity is suggestive of possible emission of a penetrating neutral particle from the sun influencing directly or indirectly the transformation Cl 37 → Ar 37 deep underground at the required rates. This possibility has to be invoked in view of the difficulties in generating the observed pattern of variations through a large modulatory mechanism involving the electron neutrino. The prediction that follows is the possible existence of a time varying component (diurnal) in the rate of some nuclear transmutations deep underground caused by an unknown neutral radiation having an interaction cross section with matter probably much larger than the canonical value of 10 ‐36 cm 2 per nucleon speculated upon by some authors in the WIMP scenario for the sun.