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Electron capture on 8B nuclei and Superkamiokande results

F. L. Villante

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9904463

Abstract

The energy spectrum of recoil electrons from solar neutrino scattering, as observed by Superkamiokande, is deformed with respect to that expected from SSM calculations. We considered ν-e scattering from neutrinos produced by the electron-capture on 8B nuclei, e-+8B --> 8Be*+νe, as a possible explanation of the spectral deformation. A flux ΦeB 104 cm-2 s-1 could account for Superkamiokande solar neutrino data. However this explanation is untenable, since the theoretical prediction, ΦeB=(1.3+-0.2) cm-2 s-1, is smaller by four orders of magnitude.

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