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IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 4(375), p. 042041, 2012

DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/042041

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Towards a refined reference Earth model for geo-neutrinos

Journal article published in 2012 by Y. Huang, V. Chubakov, F. Mantovani, W. F. Mcdonough ORCID, R. L. Rudnick ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Recently the Borexino [1] and KamLAND [2] collaborations reported evidence of the geo-neutrino signal at more than 4 sigma. These experimental results constrain the contribution of radiogenic heat production in the Earth and provide a crucial test of the existing Bulk Silicate Earth (BSE) models. We developed a high resolution, geospatial reference model for the crust and lithospheric mantle in order to determine the U and Th concentration in the deep Earth from the geo-neutrino signal. 1. Overview of current geo-neutrinos experiments The KamLAND and Borexino experiments began taking data in December 2002 and March 2007 respectively and are presently the only two operational geo-neutrinos detectors; SNO+ will begin to collect data in 2013. The Borexino detector contains 278 tons of Liquid Scintillator (LS) confined within a thin spherical nylon vessel with a radius of 4.25 m. The scintillation light is detected by 2212 8" PMT's, which cover nearly 30% of the sphere. In 482 days of live time (December 2007 – December 2009) and in a fiducial mass of 225 tons, the detector collected 21 events with a visible energy below 8 MeV [3]. After a rate-shape-time analysis, the best estimate is (1σ) geo-neutrinos events, which