Advancements in solar neutrino physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent progress in solar neutrino physics, highlighting how data and analyses over decades confirmed neutrino mass and oscillation, refined solar models, and discusses future experiments' potential impacts.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of recent experimental results, analyses, and future prospects in solar neutrino physics, emphasizing the confirmation of neutrino mass and oscillations.

Findings

Neutrinos are confirmed to be massive and oscillating particles.

Solar models have been refined based on neutrino data.

Future experiments could significantly impact particle physics and astrophysics.

Abstract

We review the results of solar neutrino physics, with particular attention to the data obtained and the analyses performed in the last decades, which were determinant to solve the solar neutrino problem (SNP), proving that neutrinos are massive and oscillating particles and contributing to refine the solar models. We also discuss the perspectives of the presently running experiments in this sector and of the ones planned for the near future and the impact they can have on elementary particle physics and astrophysics.