Neutrino Geoscience 2025 Kingston

Session

Geoneutrino Directional Detection

30 Oct 2025, 11:00

Queen's University and the McDonald Institute

5. Revealing mantle heterogeneities with future directional geoneutrino detection

Zhihao Xu (Tohoku University)

30/10/2025, 11:00

Talk

According to geophysical studies, the Earth’s interior is highly heterogeneous, containing large-scale structures. One of the most prominent features is the Large Low Shear Velocity Province (LLSVP), imaged by seismic tomography as regions with anomalously slow S-wave velocities relative to the surrounding mantle. Two major LLSVPs have been identified: one beneath the Pacific Ocean and the...

12. Novel Method for Neutrino Directionality

Jackson Seligman (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

30/10/2025, 11:30

Talk

Using the Chooz method on segmented detectors has limitations when discussing multiple distributed nonhomogeneous sources, and identification between sources; something that we wish to understand about Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB). Using our new method of neutrino directionality, we aim to solve these problems by implementing a new mathematical framework in the directional analysis of...