Astronomy 596/496 NPA
Lecture 29, April 10
Spring 2019
Lecture Notes:
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Event Horizon Telescope Images M87 Black Hole
The (Former) Solar Neutrino Problem
The problem:
8
B electron-neutrino deficit
The solution:
SNO
measures
the
flux
of
all
8
B neutrinos, and the
spectrum
of
8
B electron-neutrinos
The implications
new neutrino physics needed!
SSM bang on!
The laboratory test:
KamLAND
experiment
results
Borexino
(
7
Be neutrinos, and now
pp
too!)
the
2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Future experiments:
Sanford Underground Research Facility
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