Hanohano:A Deep Ocean Antineutrino Observatory
Abstract
This paper presents the science potential of a deep ocean antineutrino observatory being developed at Hawaii and elsewhere. The observatory design allows for relocation from one site to another. Positioning the observaory some 60 km distant from a nuclear reactor complex enables preecision measurement of neutrino mixing parameters, leading to a determination of neutrino mass hierarchy and theta_13. At a mid-Pacific location, the observatory measures the flux of uranium and thorium decay series antineutrinos from earth's mantle and performs a sensitive search for a hypothetical natural fission reactor in earth's core. A subequent deployment at another mid-ocean location would test lateral homogeneity of uranium and thorium in earth's mantle. These measurements have significance for earth energy studies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.0564,
title = {Hanohano:A Deep Ocean Antineutrino Observatory},
author = {M. Batygov and S. T. Dye and J. G. Learned and S. Matsuno and S. Pakvasa and G. Varner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0564},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Poster presented at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 3 pages. PDF