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arXiv:0711.0745 (hep-ph)
[Submitted on 5 Nov 2007 (v1), last revised 19 Feb 2008 (this version, v2)]

Title:Radiography of the Earth's Core and Mantle with Atmospheric Neutrinos

Authors:M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Francis Halzen, Michele Maltoni, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka
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Abstract: A measurement of the absorption of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 TeV when traversing the Earth is capable of revealing its density distribution. Unfortunately, the existence of beams with sufficient luminosity for the task has been ruled out by the AMANDA South Pole neutrino telescope. In this letter we point out that, with the advent of second-generation kilometer-scale neutrino detectors, the idea of studying the internal structure of the Earth may be revived using atmospheric neutrinos instead.
Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX file using RevTEX4, 2 figures and 1 table included. Matches published version
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
Report number: IFT-UAM/CSIC-07-55, YITP-SB-07-34
Cite as: arXiv:0711.0745 [hep-ph]
  (or arXiv:0711.0745v2 [hep-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0711.0745
Journal reference: Phys.Rev.Lett.100:061802,2008
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.061802

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From: Michele Maltoni [view email]
[v1] Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:00:14 UTC (26 KB)
[v2] Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:31:05 UTC (25 KB)
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