We summarize and critically evaluate the available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production. Recommended values and uncertainties are provided for key cross sections, and a recommended spectrum is given for 8 B solar neutrinos. We also discuss opportunities for further increasing the precision of key rates, including new facilities, new experimental techniques, and improvements in theory. This review, which summarizes the conclusions of a workshop held at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, in January 2009, is intended as a 10-year update and supplement to Reviews of Modern Physics 70 (1998) 1265.

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We present new measurements of the 7 Be(p,γ) 8 B cross section fromĒcm = 116 to 2460 keV, that incorporate several improvements over our previously published experiment, also discussed here. Our new measurements lead to S17(0) = 22.1 ± 0.6(expt) ± 0.6(theor) eV b based on data from Ecm = 116 to 362 keV, where the central value is based on the theory of Descouvemont and Baye. The theoretical error estimate is based on the fit of 12 different theories to our low energy data. We compare our results to other S17(0) values extracted from both direct ( 7 Be(p,γ) 8 B) and indirect (Coulomb dissociation and heavy-ion reaction) measurements, and show that the results of these 3 types of experiments are not mutually compatible. We recommend a "best" value, S17(0) = 21.4 ± 0.5(expt) ± 0.6(theor) eV b, based on the mean of all modern direct measurements below the 1 + resonance. We also present S-factors at 20 keV which is near the center of the Gamow window: the result of our measurements is S17(20) = 21.4 ± 0.6(expt) ± 0.6(theor) eV b, and the recommended value is S17(20) = 20.7 ± 0.5(expt) ± 0.6(theor) eV b.PACS numbers: 26.20+f, 26.65+t, 25.40Lw

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We used a torsion pendulum and rotating attractor with 20-pole electron-spin distributions to probe dipole-dipole interactions mediated by exotic pseudo-Goldstone bosons with m b ≤ 500 µeV and coupling strengths up to 14 orders of magnitude weaker than electromagnetism. This corresponds to symmetry-breaking scales F ≤ 70 TeV, the highest reached in any laboratory experiment. We used an attractor with a 20-pole unpolarized mass distribution to improve laboratory bounds on CP -violating monopole-dipole interactions with 1.5 µeV< m b < 400 µeV by a factor of up to 1000.