Geo-neutrinos in SNO+

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006em%26p...99..221c&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 99, Issue 1-4, pp. 221-228

Physics

Geophysics

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Continental Crust, Geo-Neutrinos, Geochemistry, Neutrino Geophysics, Radioactivity

Scientific paper

There are plans to fill the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with liquid scintillator after measurements with heavy water are completed. The new experiment, known as SNO+, would make an excellent detector for geo-neutrinos. SNO+ would be located amidst a thick and uniform region of continental crust, away from nuclear power reactors. As a result, the geo-neutrino signal to reactor background ratio in SNO+ will exceed that from previous measurements. Geo-neutrino measurements by SNO+ will shed light on the amount of uranium and thorium radioactivity in the crust, as well as deeper inside the Earth. Spectral information from SNO+ geo-neutrino detection will provide the first direct measurement of the U/Th ratio.

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