to the core, to make up for this loss.This would also imply the existence around us of a large flux of high-energy neutrinos (about 10 n neutrinos/cm 2 sec at the earth, with a mean energy near 10 Mev). Any measurements competent to detect the solar neutrino flux such as those carried on at the present time by Raymond Davis 2 at Savannah River would detect these neutrinos easily. The Li 4 neutrinos would produce in the detector a counting rate at least a hundred times larger than that expected from the normal p-p cycle (mainly from the decay of B 8 ).
The absence of such a flux would constitute a strong case against the existence of Li 4 I want to thank Professor PhilipMorrison for many enlightening discussions. ^Supported in part by the joint program of the Office of Naval Research and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. 1 H. Tyreh and P.-A. Tove, Phys. Rev. 96, 773 (1954).
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