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Conversion in Matter May Account for Missing Solar Neutrinos

JUN 01, 1986

In 1938 Hans Bethe propounded the nuclear‐fusion sequences we confidently assume to describe the energy sources of the Sun. Almost a halfcentury later, a 24 March Physical Review Letter by this same Hans Bethe takes a swipe at the one conspicuous fly remaining in the ointment of the “standard solar model” that has grown up around his seminal explanation of what makes the stars shine.

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