Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos
A measurement of the absorption of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 TeV when traversing the Earth is capable of revealing its density distribution. Unfortunately, the existence of beams with sufficient luminosity for the task has been ruled out by the AMANDA South Pole neutrino telescope. In...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Text |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
arXiv
2007
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0745 |
id |
ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 2023-05-15T18:22:12+02:00 Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. Halzen, Francis Maltoni, Michele Tanaka, Hiroyuki K. M. 2007 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0745 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.061802 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph Astrophysics astro-ph Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2007 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.061802 2022-04-01T17:27:16Z A measurement of the absorption of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 TeV when traversing the Earth is capable of revealing its density distribution. Unfortunately, the existence of beams with sufficient luminosity for the task has been ruled out by the AMANDA South Pole neutrino telescope. In this letter we point out that, with the advent of second-generation kilometer-scale neutrino detectors, the idea of studying the internal structure of the Earth may be revived using atmospheric neutrinos instead. : 4 pages, LaTeX file using RevTEX4, 2 figures and 1 table included. Matches published version Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
op_collection_id |
ftdatacite |
language |
unknown |
topic |
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph Astrophysics astro-ph Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences |
spellingShingle |
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph Astrophysics astro-ph Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. Halzen, Francis Maltoni, Michele Tanaka, Hiroyuki K. M. Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
topic_facet |
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph Astrophysics astro-ph Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences |
description |
A measurement of the absorption of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 TeV when traversing the Earth is capable of revealing its density distribution. Unfortunately, the existence of beams with sufficient luminosity for the task has been ruled out by the AMANDA South Pole neutrino telescope. In this letter we point out that, with the advent of second-generation kilometer-scale neutrino detectors, the idea of studying the internal structure of the Earth may be revived using atmospheric neutrinos instead. : 4 pages, LaTeX file using RevTEX4, 2 figures and 1 table included. Matches published version |
format |
Text |
author |
Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. Halzen, Francis Maltoni, Michele Tanaka, Hiroyuki K. M. |
author_facet |
Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. Halzen, Francis Maltoni, Michele Tanaka, Hiroyuki K. M. |
author_sort |
Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. |
title |
Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
title_short |
Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
title_full |
Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
title_fullStr |
Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
title_full_unstemmed |
Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos |
title_sort |
radiography of the earth's core and mantle with atmospheric neutrinos |
publisher |
arXiv |
publishDate |
2007 |
url |
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0745 |
geographic |
South Pole |
geographic_facet |
South Pole |
genre |
South pole |
genre_facet |
South pole |
op_relation |
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.061802 |
op_rights |
Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0711.0745 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.061802 |
_version_ |
1766201581394460672 |