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THE solar neutrino discrepancy is now regarded1,2 as very serious. The general attitude is that the Sun is trying to tell us something but no one is quite sure what. I wish in this note to add to the list of possible ad hoc explanations; namely that the scarcity of 8B neutrinos reflects a departure of the distribution of relative kinetic energies from the Maxwellian distribution. I have not been able to calculate a cause of the indicated depletion of the high energy tail of relative energies, so this explanation must be limited to the associated effect.
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CLAYTON, D. Maxwellian relative energies and solar neutrinos. Nature 249, 131 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249131a0
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