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We predict geoneutrino fluxes in a reference model based on a detailed description of Earth's crust and mantle and using the best available information on the abundances of uranium, thorium, and potassium inside Earth's layers. We estimate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-04 Fabio Mantovani , Luigi Carmignani , Gianni Fiorentini , Marcello Lissia

Knowledge about the interior of our planet is mainly based on the interpretation of seismic data from earthquakes and nuclear explosions, and of composition of meteorites. Additional observations have led to a wide range of hypotheses on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 R. J. de Meijer , E. R. van der Graaf , K. P. Jungmann

A correlation between the highest energy Cosmic Rays (above ~ EeV) and the distribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) gives rise to a prediction of neutrino production in the same sources. In this paper, we present a detailed AGN model,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julia K. Becker , Peter L. Biermann

We have developed a neutrino detector with threshold energies from ~0.115 to 105 MeV in a clean detection mode almost completely void of accidental backgrounds. It was initially developed for the NASA $\nu$SOL project to put a solar…

The description problem of geoantineutrino spectrum and reactor antineutrino experimental spectrum in KamLAND, which takes place for antineutrino energy \~2.8 MeV, and also the experimental results of the interaction of uranium dioxide and…

Neutrino telescopes are moving steadily toward the goal of detecting astrophysical neutrinos from the most powerful galactic and extragalactic sources. Here we describe analysis methods to search for high energy point-like neutrino sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jim Braun , Jon Dumm , Francesco De Palma , Chad Finley , Albrecht Karle , Teresa Montaruli

Nuclear reactors have long been a favored source for antineutrino measurements for estimates of power and burnup. With appropriate detector parameters and background rejection, an estimate of the reactor power can be derived from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-03 Emma Houston , Oluwatomi Akindele , Marc Bergevin , Adam Bernstein , Steven Dazley , Sandra Bogetic

Neutrinos are the second most abundant particles in the universe according to the Standard Model, yet they are the least likely to interact. This feature implies that detecting a neutrino can reveal valuable insights into its source. Among…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Anna M. Suliga

Antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor comprise an unshieldable signal which carries information about the core. A gadolinium-doped, water-based Cherenkov detector could detect reactor antineutrinos for mid- to far-field remote reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-28 Liz Kneale , Steve T Wilson , Tara Appleyard , James Armitage , Niamh Holland , Matthew Malek

This research is to determine at Earth the high-energy neutrino flux coming from the galactic core, and from the many other accretion disks within the galactic core. It is estimated there are 10,000 such accretion disk within the cubic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-01 Ayshea Bains , Trent English , Nickolas Solomey

Geo-neutrino studies are based on theoretical estimates of geo-neutrino spectra. We propose a method for a direct measurement of the energy distribution of antineutrinos from decays of long-lived radioactive isotopes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bellini , G. Fiorentini , A. Ianni , M. Lissia , F. Mantovani , O. Smirnov

This paper presents science potential of a deep ocean antineutrino observatory under development at Hawaii. The observatory design allows for relocation from one site to another. Positioning the observatory some 60 km distant from a nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Steve Dye

Recent measurements of reactor-produced antineutrino fluxes and energy spectra are inconsistent with models based on measured thermal fission beta spectra. In this paper, we examine the dependence of antineutrino production on fission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 B. R. Littlejohn , A. Conant , D. A. Dwyer , A. Erickson , I. Gustafson , K. Hermanek

Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, nearly massless, travel at speeds near the speed of light and are electrically neutral. Neutrinos can be generated through man-made sources like particle accelerators or by…

In the heart of the Creighton Mine near Sudbury (Canada), the SNO+ detector is foreseen to observe almost in equal proportion electron antineutrinos produced by U and Th in the Earth and by nuclear reactors. SNO+ will be the first long…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 M Baldoncini , V Strati , S A Wipperfurth , G Fiorentini , F Mantovani , W F McDonough , B Ricci

An accurate modeling of neutrino flux attenuation and the distribution of leptons they produce in transit through the Earth is an essential component to determine neutrino flux sensitivities of underground, sub-orbital and space-based…

Chemical and physical Earth models agree little as to the radioactive power of the planet. Each predicts a range of radioactive powers, overlapping slightly with the other at about 24 TW, and together spanning 14-46 TW. Approximately 20 %…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Steve Dye

We investigate the ability of an antineutrino detector to determine the fuel type of a reactor. A hypothetical 5t antineutrino detector is placed 25m from the core and measures the spectral shape and rate of antineutrinos emitted by fission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-13 Patrick Jaffke , Patrick Huber

Anti-neutrino emission rates from nuclear reactors are determined from thermal power measurements and fission rate calculations. The uncertainties in these quantities for commercial power plants and their impact on the calculated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Djurcic , J. A. Detwiler , A. Piepke , V. R. Foster , L. Miller , G. Gratta