These pages present a collection of recent papers primarily documenting the nascent science of neutrino geophysics. Most of the papers followed from talks given at Neutrino Sciences 2005: Neutrino Geophysics held at the University of Hawaii in December 2005. Several papers were solicited later in an effort to make the collection as comprehensive as possible. Every paper was scrutinized by an external reviewer to assure the quality of scientific content.
Author(s): Stephen T. Dye
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 376
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Neutrino Geophysics Conference Introduction......Page 8
Can the Future of Neutrino Physics Compare with its Past?......Page 23
Radioactivity of the Earth and the Case for Potassium in the Earth’s Core......Page 29
Is there a Nuclear Reactor at the Center of the Earth?......Page 39
Comment on R. D. Schuiling’s Paper......Page 56
Solar System Processes Underlying Planetary Formation, Geodynamics, and the Georeactor......Page 57
Geo-Neutrinos: from Theory to the KamLAND Results......Page 94
Geo-Neutrinos: A Systematic Approach to Uncertainties and Correlations......Page 114
Experimental Study of Geoneutrinos with KamLAND......Page 134
Experimental Status of Geo-reactor Search with KamLAND Detector......Page 150
Imaging the Earth’s Interior: the Angular Distribution of Terrestrial Neutrinos......Page 157
On the Possibility of Directional Analysis for Geo-neutrinos......Page 184
Towards Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy (EARTH)......Page 194
Geoneutrinos in Borexino......Page 208
Geo-neutrinos in SNO+......Page 222
A Geoneutrino Experiment at Homestake......Page 230
Earth Radioactivity Measurements with a Deep Ocean Anti-neutrino Observatory......Page 242
Probing the Earth’s Interior with the LENA Detector......Page 254
Neutron Background and Possibility for Shallow Experiments......Page 266
Scintillating Oils and Compatible Materials for Next Generation of Electron Anti-neutrino Detectors, After Double Chooz......Page 275
Neutrino Tomography – Learning About The Earth’s Interior Using The Propagation Of Neutrinos......Page 285
Far Field Monitoring of Rogue Nuclear Activity with an Array of Large Anti-neutrino Detectors......Page 308
Neutrinos and Non-proliferation in Europe......Page 330
Strategy for Applying Neutrino Geophysics to the Earth Sciences Including Planetary Habitability......Page 341
Physics in Next Geoneutrino Detectors......Page 357
