The Solar Neutrino Problem

Here we learn how the Standard Model of Physics was tested, and how the existence of fusion in the core of the Sun was actually determined. This led to two Nobel Prizes, and a lot of dry-cleaning fluid down a deep, deep hole. This is part of my intro Astronomy class taught at Willam Paterson University and CUNY Hunter.

Proton-proton chain reaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-proton_chain_reaction
Neutrino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino
The Solar Neutrino problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_neutrino_problem
Homestake experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestake_experiment
Raymond Davis Jr.: https://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/raydavis/pictures.htm
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory
Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Neutrino oscillation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation
Standard Model of Particle Physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

0:00 Introduction
0:57 Back to Stellar Structure...
2:40 What are Neutrinos?
5:38 The Proton-Proton Chain Makes A Puzzle!
6:20 Lots of Neutrinos
7:40 7,000,000,000,000 Solar Neutrinos? REALLY?
9:49 The Hunt for Solar Neutrinos
10:42 Homestake Mine Neutrino Detector
12:12 The Solar Neutrino Problem
14:20 Spotting Neutrinos: Billiard-Style
15:51 Cherenkov Light in a Nuclear Reactor
19:26 The MSW Effect
19:30 The Super-Kamiokande sees up and down
19:59 SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory)
21:57 Fusion DOES Happen in the Sun!
23:59 REVIEW QUESTIONS

Видео The Solar Neutrino Problem канала Jason Kendall