Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics
Abstract
Seismic waves have been for long time the only messenger reporting on the conditions deep inside the Earth. While global seismology provides amazing details about the structure of our planet, it is only sensitive to the mechanical properties of rocks and not to their chemical composition. In the last 5 years KamLAND and Borexino have started measuring anti-neutrinos produced by Uranium and Thorium inside the Earth. Such "Geoneutrinos" double the number of tools available to study the Earth's interior, enabling a sort of global chemical analysis of the planet, albeit for two elements only. I will discuss the results of these new measurements and put them in the context of the Earth Sciences.
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- CERN
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- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; NEUTRINOS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOSCIENCES; GEONEUTRINOS
Citation Formats
Gratta, Giorgio. Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics. CERN: N. p., 2010.
Web.
Gratta, Giorgio. Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics. CERN.
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"Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics". CERN. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1025963.
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abstractNote = {Seismic waves have been for long time the only messenger reporting on the conditions deep inside the Earth. While global seismology provides amazing details about the structure of our planet, it is only sensitive to the mechanical properties of rocks and not to their chemical composition. In the last 5 years KamLAND and Borexino have started measuring anti-neutrinos produced by Uranium and Thorium inside the Earth. Such "Geoneutrinos" double the number of tools available to study the Earth's interior, enabling a sort of global chemical analysis of the planet, albeit for two elements only. I will discuss the results of these new measurements and put them in the context of the Earth Sciences.},
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year = {Thu Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2010},
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