Neutrino Geoscience

Ludhova, Livia

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PUBDB-2016-05624

Neutrino Geoscience

Ludhova, L. (Corresponding author)

2016
Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-945931-08-0

Ludhova, Livia "Neutrino Geoscience" in Proceedings, Magellan Workshop: Connecting Neutrino Physics and Astronomy / Dahmke, Stefan K.G., Meyer, Mikko, Vanhoefer, Laura (eds.), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY : 2016 ; Magellan Workshop, 2016-03-17 - 2016-03-18, Hamburg
Magellan Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, 17 Mar 2016 - 18 Mar 2016 Hamburg : Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY-PROC 157-164 (2016) [10.3204/DESY-PROC-2016-05/7]

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Abstract: Neutrino geoscience is a newly born interdisciplinary field having as its main aim determination of the Earth's radiogenic heat through measurement of geoneutrinos: antineutrinos released in decays of long-lived radioactive elements inside the Earth. In fact, such measurements are a unique direct way how to pin-down this key element for many geophysical and geochemical Earth's models. The large--volume liquid scintillator detectors, originally built to measure neutrinos or anti-neutrinos from other sources, are capable to detect geoneutrinos, as it was demonstrated by KamLAND (Japan) and Borexino (Italy) experiments. Several future projects as SNO+ or JUNO have geoneutrino measurements among their scientific goals. This work covers the status-of-art of this new field, summarising its potential in terms of geoscience, the status of existing experimental results, and future prospects.

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