Geo-Neutrinos: a short review

✍ Scribed by Gianni Fiorentini; Marcello Lissia; Fabio Mantovani; Riccardo Vannucci

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Volume: 143
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.01.087

✦ Synopsis

Geo-neutrino detection will determine the amount of long lived radioactive elements within our planet and fix the debated radiogenic contribution to the terrestrial heat. In addition, it will provide a direct test of the Bulk Silicate Earth model, a fundamental cosmochemical paradigm about the origin of the Earth. Unorthodox models of Earth's core (including the presence of potassium or the possibility of a giant reactor) can also be checked. This short review presents status and prospects of the field.