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Progress and prospects in neutrino astrophysics

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Four separate experiments to detect neutrinos from the Sun have now confirmed a deficit in the flux relative to the predictions of standard theories of nuclear physics. Future experiments with new neutrino detectors promise to reveal the explanation for this shortfall. The planned detectors may also engender a new field of astronomy, based on the observation of neutrino emission from distant, energetic astrophysical sources.

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  1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

    John N. Bahcall

  2. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6394, USA

    Kenneth Lande

  3. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    Robert E. Lanou Jr

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA

    John G. Learned

  5. Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA

    R. G. Hamish Robertson

  6. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    R. G. Hamish Robertson

  7. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    Lincoln Wolfenstein

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Bahcall, J., Lande, K., Lanou, R. et al. Progress and prospects in neutrino astrophysics. Nature 375, 29–34 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/375029a0

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