How Many Solar Neutrino Experiments Are Wrong?

TL;DR

This paper examines discrepancies in solar neutrino experiments, suggesting that if standard physics and models are correct, then most experiments must be incorrect, highlighting potential issues in current solar neutrino measurements.

Contribution

It provides a critical analysis indicating that under standard physics, at least three out of four solar neutrino experiments are likely wrong.

Findings

Solar models predict consistent be neutrino fluxes within b10%

If standard physics holds, be flux must be less than 50% of model predictions

At least three experiments are inconsistent with standard physics assumptions

Abstract

Ten recently-published solar models give $\7be$ neutrino fluxes that lie within a range of $\pm 10$\% of the average value, a convergence that is independent of uncertainties in the measured laboratory rate of the $\7be(p,\gamma)\8b$ reaction. If nothing happens to solar neutrinos after they are created ({\it a la} standard electroweak theory) and the operating solar neutrino experiments are correct, then the $\7be$ solar neutrino flux must be less than 50\% of the solar model value. At least three of the four existing solar neutrino experiments must be wrong {\it if}: (1) standard electroweak theory is correct, and (2) the true $\7be$ neutrino flux lies within the range predicted by standard solar models.