TY - JOUR
T1 - Geo-neutrinos
AU - Bellini, G.
AU - Ianni, A.
AU - Ludhova, L.
AU - Mantovani, F.
AU - McDonough, W. F.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Ved Lekic for discussions on seismology and his production of a great figure, Kristi Engel for production of figures and support on edits, Kunio Inoue for discussion on KamLAND and Mark Chen on SNO+ project. The authors express their gratitude for useful discussions to G. Fiorentini, Y. Huang, and O. Šrámek. In addition, the authors acknowledge the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the National Science Foundation (i.e., NSF EAR0855791, EAR-1067983, and EAR1321229) for their support. Finally, the authors are grateful to the Borexino and KamLAND collaborations which kindly allowed the use of figures from their documents and publications in this work.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We review a new interdisciplinary field between Geology and Physics: the study of the Earth's geo-neutrino flux. We describe competing models for the composition of the Earth, present geological insights into the make up of the continental and oceanic crust, those parts of the Earth that concentrate Th and U, the heat producing elements, and provide details of the regional settings in the continents and oceans where operating and planned detectors are sited. Details are presented for the only two operating detectors that are capable of measuring the Earth's geo-neutrino flux: Borexino and KamLAND; results achieved to date are presented, along with their impacts on geophysical and geochemical models of the Earth. Finally, future planned experiments are highlighted.
AB - We review a new interdisciplinary field between Geology and Physics: the study of the Earth's geo-neutrino flux. We describe competing models for the composition of the Earth, present geological insights into the make up of the continental and oceanic crust, those parts of the Earth that concentrate Th and U, the heat producing elements, and provide details of the regional settings in the continents and oceans where operating and planned detectors are sited. Details are presented for the only two operating detectors that are capable of measuring the Earth's geo-neutrino flux: Borexino and KamLAND; results achieved to date are presented, along with their impacts on geophysical and geochemical models of the Earth. Finally, future planned experiments are highlighted.
KW - Borexino
KW - Earth's models
KW - Geo-neutrino
KW - KamLAND
KW - Neutrino detectors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ppnp.2013.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ppnp.2013.07.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84885582514
SN - 0146-6410
VL - 73
SP - 1
EP - 34
JO - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
JF - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
ER -