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Towards Earth Antineutrino Tomography (EARTH)

Towards Earth Antineutrino Tomography (EARTH). R.J. de Meijer, F.D. Smit, F.D. Brooks, R.W. Fearick, H.J. Wörtche (EARTH Collaboration). Neutrino Geophysics Conference, Honolulu , 14-16 December, 2005. Earth’s Interior. New Earth model. CMB may contain 40% of Earth’s K,Th and U.

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Towards Earth Antineutrino Tomography (EARTH)

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  1. Towards Earth Antineutrino Tomography (EARTH) R.J. de Meijer, F.D. Smit, F.D. Brooks, R.W. Fearick, H.J. Wörtche (EARTH Collaboration) Neutrino Geophysics Conference, Honolulu , 14-16 December, 2005

  2. Earth’s Interior

  3. New Earth model CMB may contain 40% of Earth’s K,Th and U

  4. Motivation • The CMB is a very dynamic part of the Earth. It is a thin (~200km thick) interface between the core and the mantle • Due to subduction of crust and oceanic magma the CMB may contain 40% of the Earth radionuclides and hence radiogenic heat sources. • Mapping of these heat sources therefore requires high resolution (~3˚) antineutrino tomography.

  5. EARTH The Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy programme aims at making a tomographic image of the radiogenic heat sources in the Earth’s interior by a system of ten geoneutrino telescopes with a combined angular resolution of 3°. Geoneutrinos are (at present) the only tool to probe these sources!! Anticipated spatial resolution dimension is ~3°, corresponding to about 300km for the centre of the Earth; 150km at the CMB. Each telescope will contain 4ktonnes of detection material and will have a angular resolution of ~10° and consist of many modules

  6. Sensitivity • Assuming 20TW homogeneously produced in the mantle and 5TW as a localised source at the core boundary at 30 S and 69W. • Both sources have radionuclide ratios according to BSE. • What count rates will we observe at Curaçao (12˚N; 69˚W) with a 4kton detector, with an efficiency of 0.5 and including flavour change and how much false events can we tolerate?

  7. Sensitivity and Background • 160/year from homogeneous (scaled from LENA calculation) • 80/year from the localised source. • 500/year from the crust. • Two real events per day. Expected false event according to KamLAND: 1kHz/ktonnes. For TeleLENS 100 events/year requires a reduction factor of 1010.

  8. n + e + e p n PMT PMT e p n n e n + e + e p n PMT PMT e p n n e Detector design • Antineutrinos are detected by capture on protons, leading to positrons (energy info) and neutrons (direction info). • Neutrons are detected indirectly but by γ-rays (H or Gd) or by α-particles (10B or 7Li). • Range of γ-rays is much larger than of neutrons (few cm); therefore loss of direction information is unavoidable. • Direction sensitive detection is only feasible with small diameter detectors that preserve direction information and are incorporated in a modular system of large mass.

  9. No B 5% 10B B-Loading • α-particles are stopped instantaneous and hence preserve directionality. High capture cross section reduces neutron scattering (and direction information loss) before capture. • 10B allows a higher loading factor.

  10. n n + + e e + + e e p p n n PMT PMT PMT PMT e e p p n n n n e e Principle and first results

  11. Axial/Radial Eff. Ratio (Neutrons only)

  12. gamma + phototube after-pulse (a) n-p scatter + 10B(n, α) (b) b a 200 400 600 800 t(ns) Double Pulse Events

  13. Delayed coincidences

  14. Pulse Shape Discrimination NE213 Scintilator (no B) : Am Be Source Pulse Shape Neutrons Gammas Pulse Height

  15. Background reduction • Delayed coincidence (~106); • Position control (~102); • Pulse shape (~101-2); • Constant α-pulse (~101-2); • (Anti-)coincidence (~102-3); Expected range:1011-1015

  16. Conclusions • Various geophysics models exist for the “engine” of the Earth, especially for the CMB. • Antineutrinos provides novel information, but this tool has not yet been exploited. • To exploit this tool, direction sensitive detection of antineutrinos is imperative. • Presently this only seems feasible by large volume, modular detector systems. • Simulations indicate detector diameters of a few cm2 diameter. • EARTH is an ambitious, long-term programme, focused on 3D tomographic mapping of radiogenic heat sources with a combined angular resolution of ~3˚, dictated by the CMB. • Initial detector development indicates the feasibility, but not straightforwardly.

  17. … remember Pauli

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