Could One Find Petroleum Using Neutrino Oscillations in Matter?
arXiv:hep-ph/0111247 · doi:10.1209/epl/i2002-00314-9
Abstract
In neutrino physics, it is now widely believed that neutrino oscillations are influenced by the presence of matter, modifying the energy spectrum produced by a neutrino beam traversing the Earth. Here, we will discuss the reverse problem, i.e. what could be learned about the Earth's interior from a single neutrino baseline energy spectrum, especially about the Earth's mantle. We will use a statistical analysis with a low-energy neutrino beam under very optimistic assumptions. At the end, we will note that it is hard to find petroleum with such a method, though it is not too far away from technical feasibility.
6 pages, 4 figures, EPL LaTeX. Final version to be published in Europhys. Lett
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