Have there been any data collected by SOHO which help explain the discrepancy in solar neutrino flux?
A neutrino is a by-product of basic nuclear reactions. A big fusion reactor like the Sun should be emitting vast amounts of neutrinos all the time. Unfortunately, neutrinos are difficult to detect. Even more unfortunately, the first neutrino detectors (in the 1960s) reported only about 30% of the expected neutrino flux. That result has been duplicated many times with different experiments in the decades since. In short yes, although not without a significant contribution being made by the neutrino and particle physics communities. The ground-based Helioseismic Network along with MDI and GOLF have focussed on refining the structure of the Sun’s inner atmosphere, such as the temperature, density and speed of sound. Until the observation of a neutrino oscillation these dynamic parameters were thought to be critical components causing the solar neutrino discrepancy. Recently, research on the standard solar model with a massive dataset comprising data from SOHO (GOLF and MDI), ground-based
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