Nature 310, 191 - 198 (19 July 1984); doi:10.1038/310191a0

Antineutrino astronomy and geophysics

Lawrence M. Krauss^*, Sheldon L. Glashow^† & David N. Schramm^‡

^*Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
^†Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
^‡Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
^†Permanent address: Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

Radioactive decays inside the Earth produce antineutrinos that may be detectable at the surface. Their flux and spectrum contain important geophysical information. New detectors need to be developed, discriminating between sources of antineutrinos, including the cosmic-background. The latter can be related to the frequency of supernovas.

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