Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2009-02-20
EOS Trans. AGU, 2008, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T21C-1978
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
18 pages, 8 figures, Poster presentation in AGU 2008 Fall meeting
Scientific paper
A combination of several sources including: radiogenic heating, processes of mantle and core formation and differentiation, delayed radiogenic heating, earthquakes, and tidal friction account for the surface heat flux in the Earth. Radiogenic heating is of much interest in various fields of geosciences. Inferences from recent experiments with reactor antineutrinos and solar neutrinos showed that the age of geoneutrinos is at hand for constraining radiogenic heat. Because of the deep penetrating properties of the neutrinos this type of radiation in the decay of the heat producing elements (HPE) is ideally suited for the investigation of the deep interiors of the Earth compared to conventional radiometric methods for HPE employing alpha-, beta- and gamma rays. This presentation will address the considerations for a dedicated geoneutrino detector to be set up for investigating the interior regions all the way to the center of the Earth.
Gosnold W.
Ila P.
Jagam P.
Lykken G. I.
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