Solution of the solar-neutrino problem

Comparison of the results from the Kamiokande neutrino-electron scattering experiment with those from the chlorine experiment and with solar models shows that the explanation of the solar-neutrino problem probably requires physics beyond the standard electroweak model with zero neutrino masses. The experimental results, including the shape of the electron-recoil energy spectrum measured by Kamiokande, are in excellent agreement with a nonadiabatic solution of the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wulfenstein effect, yielding a neutrino mass difference of m^2=110^-8 sin^-2ₕ eV^2.