Neutrino Geoscience 2019 Prague

Session

Poster session

21 Oct 2019, 17:30

Room 319 (3rd floor) (Conference center of the Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies)

36. Analysis Strategies for the Updated Geoneutrino Measurement with Borexino:

Ms Sindhujha Kumaran (IKP-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

21/10/2019, 17:30

Borexino is a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy. It measures antineutrinos via the Inverse Beta Decay reaction and is one of the two detectors that has measured geoneutrinos so far. The updated statistics and the improved analysis techniques have led to a precision of around 18%. The new analysis adopts an enlarged fiducial...

41. Crustal density structure of South China and South China Sea

Dr Ya Xu ( Insititute of geology and geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

21/10/2019, 17:30

The deep structure and its density of South China block and the north margin of the South China Sea is important to understand the regional tectonic evolution and interaction of continent and oceanic plate. The density structures also provide the basic parameters for geoneutrino flux estimation in Jiangmen, China. Based on the gravity data, we inverse the 3D density structure and give the...

18. Effect of the overburden on the geoneutrino signal at SNO+

Dr Virginia Strati (University of Ferrara, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Ferrara, Italy; INFN, Ferrara Section, Ferrara, Italy)

21/10/2019, 17:30

The SNO+ detector is designed to achieve several fundamental physics goals as a low-background experiment, particularly measuring the Earth’s geoneutrino flux. The detector is located at SNOLAB, one of the deepest underground laboratories in the world with an overburden of 2092 m. The goeneutrino signal from originated from the 50 × 50 km upper crust surrounding the detector is estimated...

21. Geoneutrino measurements with Borexino: implications for geoscience

Prof. Fabio Mantovani (on behalf of Borexino collaboration) (University of Ferrara - INFN Ferrara)

21/10/2019, 17:30

Borexino is a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy) measuring geoneutrinos from 238U and 232Th decay chains through inverse beta decay of free proton. The improved geoneutrino analysis of some 3263 days of data, taken by Borexino between December 2007 and April 2019, is candidate to provide useful insights into the composition of the...

46. Heat flow from the core and the thermal evolution of the Earth

Vojtěch Patočka

21/10/2019, 17:30

The role of heat flow coming from the Earth's core has long been overlooked or underestimated in simple models of Earth's thermal evolution. Throughout most of Earth's history, the mantle must have been extracting from the core at least the amount of heat that is required to operate the geodynamo. In view of recent laboratory measurements and theoretical calculations indicating a higher...

31. Ocean Bottom Detector : toward direct measurement of mantle geoneutrinos

Hiroko Watanabe (Tohoku University), Dr Kenta Ueki (JAMSTEC)

21/10/2019, 17:30

Geoneutrinos bring unique and direct information on the Earth’s composition, which relate to the fundamental mysteries of its heat balance and thermal evolution. To date, we have set limits on the global flux of geo-neutrino that has in turned constrained the range of acceptable models for the Earth’s composition, but distinguishing the mantle flux by current detectors, which are all locate on...

13. Probing the Earth Core Composition with Neutrino Oscillation Tomography

Veronique Van Elewyck (Universite Paris Diderot)

21/10/2019, 17:30

Atmospheric neutrinos open the way to alternative probing methods to study the structure and composition of the inner Earth, complementary to geophysical methods. At GeV energies, the flavour oscillations of neutrinos crossing the Earth are distorted due to coherent forward scattering on electrons along their path. The signature of these matter effects in the neutrino angular, energy
and...