Abstract
In both the Sun and the early universe, the (, ) reaction plays a key role. The rate of this reaction is the least certain nuclear input needed to calculate both the primordial abundance in big-bang nucleosynthesis and the solar neutrino flux. Taking advantage of several recent highly precise experiments, we analyze modern (, ) data using a robust and minimally model-dependent approach capable of handling discrepant data sets dominated by systematic rather than statistical errors. We find keV b at the 68.3(95.4)% confidence level.
- Received 22 September 2008
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.78.064614
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