Brownian motion of neutrinos in the Sun [On the distribution of collisions of a neutrino with nucleons of the Sun]

Abstract

When solving the solar neutrino problem on the basis of the hypothesis of the existence of a new interaction between electron neutrinos and nucleons, carried by a massless pseudoscalar boson, it becomes necessary to find the consequences of the short-term Brownian motion of neutrinos in the Sun. Earlier, we transmitted these consequences by the effective number of collisions of a neutrino with nucleons of the Sun, assuming the equality of fluxes near the Earth of left- and right-handed solar neutrinos. In this paper, we analyze the transfer of the mentioned consequences by a test geometric distribution of collisions with one free parameter. This distribution provides good agreement between theoretical and experimental results for all five observed processes with solar neutrinos, while it gives the ratio of fluxes near the Earth of left- and right-handed neutrinos equal to 0.516:0.484. With such a ratio, the acceptability of the method of the effective number of collisions of a neutrino with nucleons is again confirmed.

arXiv comment6 pages. Journal version

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