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Antineutrino astronomy and geophysics

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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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  1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Lawrence M. Krauss

  2. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA

    Sheldon L. Glashow

  3. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA

    David N. Schramm

  4. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Sheldon L. Glashow

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Krauss, L., Glashow, S. & Schramm, D. Antineutrino astronomy and geophysics. Nature 310, 191–198 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/310191a0

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