CERN Colloquium

Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics

Name: Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics
Start: 2010-11-25T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2010-11-25T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Giorgio Gratta (Physics Dept, Stanford University)

Thursday 25 Nov 2010, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Description

Seismic waves have been for long time the only messenger reporting on the conditions deep inside the Earth. While global seismology provides amazing details about the structure of our planet, it is only sensitive to the mechanical properties of rocks and not to their chemical composition. In the last 5 years KamLAND and Borexino have started measuring anti-neutrinos produced by Uranium and Thorium inside the Earth. Such "Geoneutrinos" double the number of tools available to study the Earth's interior, enabling a sort of global chemical analysis of the planet, albeit for two elements only.I will discuss the results of these new measurements and put them in the context of the Earth Sciences."

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Ignatios Antoniadis/PH-TH and Maria SPIROPULU PH/EP.................................Tea and Coffee will be served at 16:00

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Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics

by Giorgio Gratta (Physics Dept, Stanford University)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN