Advancements in solar neutrino physics

Abstract

We review the results of solar neutrino physics, with particular attention to the data obtained and the analyses performed in the last decades, which were determinant to solve the Solar Neutrino Problem, proving that neutrinos are massive and oscillating particles and contributing to refine the Solar Models. We discuss also the perspectives of the presently running experiments in this sector and of the ones planned for the near future and the impact they can have on elementary particle physics and astrophysics.