Solar opacity, neutrino signals and helioseismology

Authors :: Barbara Ricci
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: In connection with the recent suggestion by Tsytovich et al. that opacity in the solar core could be overestimated, we consider the following questions: i) What would a 10\% opacity reduction imply for the solar neutrino puzzle? ii) Is there any hope of solving the solar neutrino puzzle by changing opacity? iii) Is a 10\% opacity reduction testable with helioseismological data?<br />Comment: revtex file of 3 pages + 2 postscipt figures, in a uuencoded compressed tarred file, send any offprint request to ricci@vaxfe.fe.infn.it