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Lithium Experiment on Solar Neutrinos to Weight the CNO Cycle

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The measurement of the flux of beryllium neutrinos with the accuracy of about 10% and CNO neutrinos with the accuracy 30% will enable to find the flux of pp-neutrinos in the source with the accuracy better than 1% using the luminosity constraint. The future experiments on νe- scattering will enable to measure with very good accuracy the flux of beryllium and pp-neutrinos on the Earth. The ratio of the flux of pp-neutrinos on the Earth and in the source will enable to find with very good accuracy a mixing angle theta solar. Lithium detector has high sensitivity to CNO neutrinos and can find the contribution of CNO cycle to the energy generated in the Sun. This will be a stringent test of the theory of stellar evolution and combined with other experiments will provide a precise determination of the flux of pp-neutrinos in the source and a mixing angle theta solar. The work on the development of the technology of lithium experiment is now in progress.

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A. Kopylov, I. Orekhov, V. Petukhov, A. Solomatin, M. Arnoldov. 2004-01-20. Lithium Experiment on Solar Neutrinos to Weight the CNO Cycle. https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1772456

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