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Neutrino Geoscience: Review, survey, future prospects
W. F. McDonough, H. Watanabe
The earth's surface heat flux is 463 TW (terrawatts, 10 watts). Although many assume we know the earth's abundance and distribution of radioactive heat producing elemen…
Testing a proposed "second continent" beneath eastern China using geoneutrino measurements
Bedrich Roskovec, Ondrej Sramek, William F. McDonough
Models that envisage successful subduction channel transport of upper crustal materials below 300 km depth, past a critical phase transition in buoyant crustal lithologies, are cap…
Earth's chondritic Th/U: negligible fractionation during accretion, core formation, and crust - mantle differentiation
Scott A. Wipperfurth, Meng Guo, Ondřej Šrámek +1
Radioactive decay of potassium (K), thorium (Th), and uranium (U) power the Earth's engine, with variations in 232Th/238U recording planetary differentiation, atmospheric oxidation…
Geoneutrinos and reactor antineutrinos at SNO+
M Baldoncini, V Strati, S A Wipperfurth +4
In the heart of the Creighton Mine near Sudbury (Canada), the SNO+ detector is foreseen to observe almost in equal proportion electron antineutrinos produced by U and Th in the Ear…
Subterranean production of neutrons, Ar and Ne: Rates and uncertainties
Ondřej Šrámek, Lauren Stevens, William F. McDonough +2
Accurate understanding of the subsurface production rate of the radionuclide Ar is necessary for argon dating techniques and noble gas geochemistry of the shallow and the de…
Expected geoneutrino signal at JUNO
Virginia Strati, Marica Baldoncini, Ivan Callegari +4
Constraints on the Earth's composition and on its radiogenic energy budget come from the detection of geoneutrinos. The KamLAND and Borexino experiments recently reported the geone…
Geo-neutrinos and Earth Models
S. T. Dye, Y. Huang, V. Lekic +2
We present the current status of geo-neutrino measurements and their implications for radiogenic heating in the mantle. Earth models predict different levels of radiogenic heating…
Regional study of the Archean to Proterozoic crust at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO+), Ontario: Predicting the geoneutrino flux
Yu Huang, Virginia Strati, Fabio Mantovani +3
The SNO+ detector, a new kiloton scale liquid scintillator detector capable of recording geoneutrino events, will define the strength of the Earth radiogenic heat. A detailed 3-D m…
A reference Earth model for the heat producing elements and associated geoneutrino flux
Yu Huang, Viacheslav Chubakov, Fabio Mantovani +2
The recent geoneutrino experimental results from KamLAND and Borexino detectors reveal the usefulness of analyzing the Earth geoneutrino flux, as it provides a constraint on the st…
Geophysical and geochemical constraints on geoneutrino fluxes from Earth's mantle
Ondřej Šrámek, William F. McDonough, Edwin S. Kite +3
Knowledge of the amount and distribution of radiogenic heating in the mantle is crucial for understanding the dynamics of the Earth, including its thermal evolution, the style and…