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A new mechanism of thermonuclear reaction is briefly introduced. It shows that a certain amount of thermonuclear reaction can take place in dense, low-temperature (T < 1 × 105 K) plasmas. At a super-high temperature, it is in agreement with the old thermonuclear reaction mechanism first presented by Gamow and Bethe. As most regions in the Sun are at moderate and low temperature, a sufficient amount of fusion energy is generated therein. Therefore the solar central temperature in standard models must be decreased to about 13.8 × 106 K. That would make the flux of high-energy neutrinos conform with the observational results.
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Hong-Zhang, W. An explanation for the solar neutrino problem. Sol Phys 140, 203–206 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148441
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