Exploring the hidden interior of the Earth with directional neutrino measurements

The detection of Earth’s anti neutrino emission from potassium and the mantle remain elusive. Here the authors propose a method for measuring potassium and mantle geo-neutrinos by detecting their elastic scattering on electrons with direction-sensitive detectors.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael Leyton, Stephen Dye, Jocelyn Monroe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15989