Geotomography with solar and supernova neutrinos

Details Geotomography with solar and supernova neutrinos Geotomography with solar and supernova neutrinos

2005-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0502154v2

JHEP 0506:053,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

35 pages, 7 figures; minor textual changes in section 2

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/053

We show how by studying the Earth matter effect on oscillations of solar and supernova neutrinos inside the Earth one can in principle reconstruct the electron number density profile of the Earth. A direct inversion of the oscillation problem is possible due to the existence of a very simple analytic formula for the Earth matter effect on oscillations of solar and supernova neutrinos. From the point of view of the Earth tomography, these oscillations have a number of advantages over the oscillations of the accelerator or atmospheric neutrinos, which stem from the fact that solar and supernova neutrinos are coming to the Earth as mass eigenstates rather than flavour eigenstates. In particular, this allows reconstruction of density profiles even over relatively short neutrino path lengths in the Earth, and also of asymmetric profiles. We study the requirements that future experiments must meet to achieve a given accuracy of the tomography of the Earth.

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