An Experimental Review of Solar Neutrinos

TL;DR

This paper reviews the history, current experimental status, and detailed findings related to solar neutrinos, highlighting their role in understanding stellar processes and neutrino physics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of solar neutrino experiments, models, and measurements, emphasizing recent advances and future prospects in the field.

Findings

Solar neutrino experiments confirmed neutrino oscillations.

Refined solar models match neutrino detection data.

Precision measurements constrain neutrino oscillation parameters.

Abstract

Solar neutrinos have been the subject of experimental study for almost half a century. The initial aim was '...to see into the interior of a star and thus verify directly the hypothesis of nuclear energy generation in stars'. Since then the field has advanced a long way. This article reviews what we have learnt from solar neutrinos to date, the current experimental status of the field, and the finer details of solar models and precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters that could be probed with this free source of extra-terrestrial particles.