One of the ways nuclear fusion happens in the sun is deuterium and tritium fusion which forms a Helium-4 atom and a neutrino. What flavor of neutrino is created - a tau, muon, or electron neutrino?

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2022-08-18

One of the ways nuclear fusion happens in the sun is deuterium and tritium fusion which forms a Helium-4 atom and a neutrino. What flavor of neutrino is created - a tau, muon, or electron neutrino?

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you are getting mixed up about the mechanism of fusion in the Sun. The first, and rate limiting, step is fusion of two protons to produce a deuteron, a positron and an electron neutrino. The neutrino is produced because the process is basically beta plus decay to create a neutron then fusion of the neutron and a proton. That is the only step where a neutrino is produced.
From there fusion with another proton produces Helium-3 and the 3 He nuclei react to produce 4 He

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