Radiography of 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...

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Published in:Physical Review Letters
Main Authors: González García, Ma. Concepción, Halzen, Francis, Maltoni, Michele, Tanaka, Hiroyuki K. M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2008
Subjects:
Neutrins
Estructura interna de la terra
Neutrinos
Internal structure of the earth
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2445/138318
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Summary: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 Earth may be revived using atmospheric neutrinos instead.

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