Studying the Earth with Geoneutrinos
Abstract
Geo-neutrinos, electron antineutrinos from natural radioactive decays inside the Earth, bring to the surface unique information about our planet. The new techniques in neutrino detection opened a door into a completely new inter-disciplinary field of Neutrino Geoscience. We give here a broad geological introduction highlighting the points where the geo-neutrino measurements can give substantial new insights. The status-of-art of this field is overviewed, including a description of the latest experimental results from KamLAND and Borexino experiments and their first geological implications. We performed a new combined Borexino and KamLAND analysis in terms of the extraction of the mantle geo-neutrino signal and the limits on the Earth's radiogenic heat power. The perspectives and the future projects having geo-neutrinos among their scientific goals are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.3961,
title = {Studying the Earth with Geoneutrinos},
author = {Livia Ludhova and Sandra Zavatarelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3961},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
22 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Advances in High Energy Physics-Hindawi Publishing Corporation