Our paper analyzes in detail one of the most important phenomena established by several particle physics experiments in recent years, namely, solar neutrino flavor oscillations. Since solar neutrino experiments are extremely difficult, it is very important to extract from their precious data all the information which can be relevant for particle physicists and solar modelists. We have tried to "squeeze" such pieces of information in the most effective and reliable way we could—hence our title "Getting the most from ..."—in order to provide a sort of reference work in the field, and apparently we succeeded. We would like to emphasize, however, that our work is part of a collective effort made by literally thousands of theorists and experimentalists during several decades of neutrino oscillation searches.

Yes. Our paper describes a systematic method for comparing theoretical predictions and experimental data related to solar neutrino oscillations, and applies it to get accurate information and up-to-date results about neutrino properties. Several researchers in the field have then adopted either the method, or the results, or both.

Neutrinos, the lightest building blocks of matter, can belong to three different species (or "flavors'', as we say in jargon): electron, muon, and tau neutrinos. Transitions from one flavor to another are strictly forbidden, if neutrinos are massless. Experiments, however, have recently found compelling evidence that neutrinos, originally produced in the Sun's core with electron flavor, arrive at the Earth as a quantum superposition of all different flavors (electron, muon, and tau): therefore, neutrinos must have mass. In particular, the differences of squared masses of neutrinos, and their so-called "mixing angles," completely determine the properties of such quantum superpositions, i.e., the oscillations from one flavor to another. In this general context, our work aimed at reaching highly accurate and reliable estimates of the solar neutrino mass-mixing parameters. In order to do so, we used all the available and up-to-date experimental data, performed precise calculations of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon, evaluated all possible sources of uncertainties, and applied advanced statistical techniques in comparing theoretical predictions with experimental data. The results can be used as a state-of-the-art framework to evaluate further improvements in the determination of the solar neutrino mass-mixing parameters.