Sensitivity on Earth Core and Mantle densities using Atmospheric Neutrinos

Details Sensitivity on Earth Core and Mantle densities using Atmospheric Neutrinos Sensitivity on Earth Core and Mantle densities using Atmospheric Neutrinos

2009-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0796v2

JCAP 0906:030,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/030

Neutrino radiography may provide an alternative tool to study the very deep structures of the Earth. Though these measurements are unable to resolve the fine density layer features, nevertheless the information which can be obtained are independent and complementary to the more conventional seismic studies. The aim of this paper is to assess how well the core and mantle averaged densities can be reconstructed through atmospheric neutrino radiography. We find that about a 2% sensitivity for the mantle and 5% for the core could be achieved for a ten year data taking at an underwater km^3 Neutrino Telescope. This result does not take into account systematics related to the details of the experimental apparatus.

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