Gallium Anomaly and Solar Neutrinos
Abstract
The Gallium Anomaly is the disagreement between the measured capture rate of neutrinos by 71Ga and the rate theoretically expected from the electron capture decay of 71Ge. The experimental measurements were performed with intense artificial sources. In the present work we consider the sun as a neutrino source that can be calibrated via the fundamental, standard-model neutrino-electron elastic scattering reaction in terrestrial detectors. The result is found to be not anomalous, with good agreement between the measured value of 66.1±3.1 SNU from SAGE and Gallex/GNO, and the total measured source strengths of solar sources, 67.5+1.4−1.1 SNU. It may be concluded that neither the 71Ga charged-current cross section nor gallium experiment extraction and counting efficiencies account for the Gallium Anomaly.
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BibTeX
@misc{elliott2026gallium,
title = {{Gallium Anomaly and Solar Neutrinos}},
author = {Steven R. Elliott and R. G. Hamish Robertson},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.22219},
eprint = {2610.22219},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22219},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Gallium Anomaly and Solar Neutrinos
AU - Steven R. Elliott
AU - R. G. Hamish Robertson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.22219
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22219
AB - The Gallium Anomaly is the disagreement between the measured capture rate of neutrinos by ^71Ga and the rate theoretically expected from the electron capture decay of ^71Ge. The experimental measurements were performed with intense artificial sources. In the present work we consider the sun as a neutrino source that can be calibrated via the fundamental, standard-model neutrino-electron elastic scattering reaction in terrestrial detectors. The result is found to be not anomalous, with good agreement between the measured value of 66.1±3.1 SNU from SAGE and Gallex/GNO, and the total measured source strengths of solar sources, 67.5^+1.4_−1.1 SNU. It may be concluded that neither the ^71Ga charged-current cross section nor gallium experiment extraction and counting efficiencies account for the Gallium Anomaly.
ER -