Geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments
Abstract
Geoneutrinos can provide a unique insight into Earth's interior, its central engine and its formation history. We study the detection of geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments, which has been considered non-feasible. We compute the geoneutrino-induced electron and nuclear recoil spectra in different materials, under several optimistic assumptions. We identify germanium as the most promising target element due to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold that could be achieved. The minimum exposure required for detection would be O(10) tonne-years. The realistic low thresholds achievable in germanium and silicon permit the detection of 40K geoneutrinos. These are particularly important to determine Earth's formation history but they are below the kinematic threshold of inverse beta decay, the detection process used in scintillator-based experiments.
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1515595
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1608236
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009937; FPA2014-57816-P; PFA2017-85985-P
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; geophysics; neutrino interactions; neutrinos; dark matter detectors; particle data analysis
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Gelmini, Graciela B., Takhistov, Volodymyr, and Witte, Samuel J. Geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.093009.
Gelmini, Graciela B., Takhistov, Volodymyr, & Witte, Samuel J. Geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.093009
Gelmini, Graciela B., Takhistov, Volodymyr, and Witte, Samuel J. Fri .
"Geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.093009.
@article{osti_1515595,
title = {Geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments},
author = {Gelmini, Graciela B. and Takhistov, Volodymyr and Witte, Samuel J.},
abstractNote = {Geoneutrinos can provide a unique insight into Earth's interior, its central engine and its formation history. We study the detection of geoneutrinos in large direct detection experiments, which has been considered non-feasible. We compute the geoneutrino-induced electron and nuclear recoil spectra in different materials, under several optimistic assumptions. We identify germanium as the most promising target element due to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold that could be achieved. The minimum exposure required for detection would be O(10) tonne-years. The realistic low thresholds achievable in germanium and silicon permit the detection of 40K geoneutrinos. These are particularly important to determine Earth's formation history but they are below the kinematic threshold of inverse beta decay, the detection process used in scintillator-based experiments.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.093009},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 9,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {5}
}
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