@Article{Serenelli_etal2013,
author="Serenelli, A.
and Pena-Garay, C.
and Haxton, W. C.",
title="Using the standard solar model to constrain solar composition and nuclear reaction S factors",
journal="Physical Review D",
year="2013",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="87",
number="4",
pages="043001--9pp",
abstract="While standard solar model (SSM) predictions depend on approximately 20 input parameters, SSM neutrino flux predictions are strongly correlated with a single model output parameter, the core temperature T-c. Consequently, one can extract physics from solar neutrino flux measurements while minimizing the consequences of SSM uncertainties, by studying flux ratios with appropriate power-law weightings tuned to cancel this T-c dependence. We reexamine an idea for constraining the primordial C + N content of the solar core from a ratio of CN-cycle O-15 to pp-chain B-8 neutrino fluxes, showing that non-nuclear SSM uncertainties in the ratio are small and effectively governed by a single parameter, the diffusion coefficient. We point out that measurements of both CN-I cycle neutrino branches-O-15 and N-13 beta-decay-could, in principle, lead to separate determinations of the core C and N abundances, due to out-of-equilibrium CN-cycle burning in the cooler outer layers of the solar core. Finally, we show that the strategy of constructing {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}minimum uncertainty{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} neutrino flux ratios can also test other properties of the SSM. In particular, we demonstrate that a weighted ratio of Be-7 and B-8 fluxes constrains a product of S-factors to the same precision currently possible with laboratory data.",
optnote="WOS:000314685400001",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1328), last updated on Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:57:05 +0000",
issn="1550-7998",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevD.87.043001",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6740",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.043001",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1211.6740",
language="English"
}