Status of Solar Models

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status of solar models, highlighting discrepancies between neutrino flux predictions and experimental results, while confirming the accuracy of sound speed calculations from helioseismology.

Contribution

It provides an updated comparison of solar model neutrino flux predictions with experimental data and discusses the consistency of helioseismological sound speeds.

Findings

Neutrino fluxes from standard models are inconsistent with experiments.

Sound speeds from models agree well with helioseismological data.

Addresses statements made by Dar at Neutrino 96.

Abstract

The neutrino fluxes calculated from 14 standard solar models published recently in refereed journals are inconsistent with the results of the 4 pioneering solar neutrino experiments if nothing happens to the neutrinos after they are created in the solar interior. The sound speeds calculated from standard solar models are in excellent agreement with helioseismological measurements of sound speeds. Some statements made by Dar at Neutrino 96 are answered here.