View Single Post
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 27-July-2005, 08:07 PM
antoniseb's Avatar
antoniseb antoniseb is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Marlborough, MA
Posts: 15,108
Default

Here is a new scientist story about using the KamLAND detector to identify antineutrinos from the radioactive decay of semi-stable isotopes (such as U-238) inside the Earth.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=...=mg18725103.700

The article points out that this is a first result, and that a lot of refinement is possible with future detectors, so that a more solid number for total power can be determined, and a map of the distribution can be made.

The article didn't indicate what the energy of these antineutrinos are, or how we know they aren't coming from another source, though I bet if we look up recent papers by Bill McDonough, we could find out those details.
__________________
Forming opinions as we speak
Reply With Quote