Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem at the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Eric B. Norman
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear Science Division
September 24, 2002

Abstract:
Over the past 30 years, all experiments that were designed and operated to detect neutrinos coming from our Sun, observed substantially fewer neutrinos than are predicted by the so-called standard solar model. This difference between theory and observation came to be known as the "solar neutrino problem". Many suggestions were made as to what might be the origin of this discrepancy. However, recent observations made at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) have shown convincing evidence for flavor-changing oscillations as being the solution to the solar neutrino problem. In this talk, I will review the evidence for the solar neutrino problem and the results from SNO, which appear to have solved this long-standing problem.