Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 82
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16082-5

Review

Experimental data on solar neutrinos

INFN, via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italia

^* e-mail: livia.ludhova@mi.infn.it

Received: 9 July 2015
Accepted: 10 July 2015
Published online: 8 April 2016

Abstract

Neutrino physics continues to be a very active research field, full of opened fundamental questions reaching even beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles and towards a possible new physics. Solar neutrinos have played a fundamental historical role in the discovery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations and thus non-zero neutrino mass. Even today, the study of solar neutrinos provides an important insight both into the neutrino as well as into the stellar and solar physics. In this section we give an overview of the most important solar-neutrino measurements from the historical ones up to the most recent ones. We cover the results from the experiments using radio-chemic (Homestake, SAGE, GNO, GALLEX), water Cherenkov (Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande, SNO), and the liquid-scintillator (Borexino, KamLAND) detection techniques.