Geo-neutrinos and Earth's interior

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dc.creatorFiorentini, Gianni
dc.creatorLissia, Marcello
dc.creatorMantovani, Fabio
dc.date2007-07-23
dc.date2007-08-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:56:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:56:52Z
dc.descriptionThe deepest hole that has ever been dug is about 12 km deep. Geochemists analyze samples from the Earth's crust and from the top of the mantle. Seismology can reconstruct the density profile throughout all Earth, but not its composition. In this respect, our planet is mainly unexplored. Geo-neutrinos, the antineutrinos from the progenies of U, Th and K40 decays in the Earth, bring to the surface information from the whole planet, concerning its content of natural radioactive elements. Their detection can shed light on the sources of the terrestrial heat flow, on the present composition, and on the origins of the Earth. Geo-neutrinos represent a new probe of our planet, which can be exploited as a consequence of two fundamental advances that occurred in the last few years: the development of extremely low background neutrino detectors and the progress on understanding neutrino propagation. We review the status and the prospects of the field.
dc.description56 pages in RMP ReVTeX format, 36 figures. A few typos corrected and a few minor points changed: resubmitted only to match the final version accepted for publication by Physics Reports
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3203
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3203
dc.identifierPhys.Rept.453:117-172,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physrep.2007.09.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/186559
dc.subjectGeophysics
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Experiment
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleGeo-neutrinos and Earth's interior
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