Speaker
Daniel Bemmerer
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Description
Our Sun burns hydrogen through the proton-proton cycles and, with a ssmall contribution, also by the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle. These processes can be studied by their neutrino signatures. Whereas current solar neutrino detectors have delivered highly precise data for the solar Be-7 and B-8 neutrino fluxes, the underlying nuclear rates are significantly less well known. The ERC Synergy Grant LUNANOVA aims to correct this, with dedicated experiments deep underground at Gran Sasso, shallow underground at Felsenkeller, and at several overground facilities. These upcoming new data will be used to compute a new solar model.
Author
Daniel Bemmerer
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)