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The Smoking Gun is Finally Found

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What are the Stars?

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In Chap. 5, ‘Energy Generation in the Stars’, we discussed the pioneering experiment by Raymond Davis and his colleagues to detect the neutrinos produced in the nuclear reactions that generate the energy radiated by the Sun.

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Srinivasan, G. (2014). The Smoking Gun is Finally Found. In: What are the Stars?. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1_7

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