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Models of the solar interior, based on the usual physical assumptions1, predict a neutrino flux several times greater than that observed in the Davis 37Cl experiment2,3. If, as is widely accepted, this discrepancy represents a ‘flaw’ in the standard solar model one would expect this flaw to manifest itself in other ways also. Here we point out some less well known discrepancies between theoretical predictions of the standard solar model and relevant observations. We suggest that an additional source of energy production that competes with the proton–proton chain and carbon-nitrogen cycles, can reduce these discrepancies if it has a sufficiently strong temperature dependence. Model calculations based on a possible new mode of nucleosynthesis4,5 support this conclusion.
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Joseph, C. Solar neutrinos and other problems and their relation to energy production in the Sun. Nature 312, 254–255 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/312254a0
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