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What does SN stand for?

Solar Neutrino


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Pretty much all of us would be condemned to a nasty death in the scenario laid out in "2012" — the Earth's crust shifting and tumbling into the oceans after solar neutrinos heat up the planet's core.
SNO+ would piggyback on and use the same detector as a highly successful solar neutrino project called the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which played an important role in solving a long-standing conundrum.
The observatory initially was designed to detect solar neutrinos and advance physics research into age-old mysteries of the universe.
The new antineutrino findings parallel what's been seen with solar neutrinos, notes Giorgio Gratta of Stanford University, a KamLAND co-spokesman.
The ease of the missing solar neutrinos is solved--again.
388) says that solar neutrinos oscillate between different flavors on the trip to Earth and that those taking a longer path have more time to oscillate into kinds of neutrinos that the sun doesn't produce.
Although the SNO team is still collecting data, the evidence for oscillating solar neutrinos "is pretty definitive at this point," comments Stephen J.
Preliminary results confirm previous experimental findings that the number of solar neutrinos detected on Earth falls significantly short of the number predicted by conventional theory (SN: 12/21&28/91, p.

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