caa a22 4500 467897034 CHVBK 20180406152806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11038-006-9104-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11038-006-9104-8 Towards Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy (EARTH) [Elektronische Daten] [R. de Meijer, F. Smit, F. Brooks, R. Fearick, H. Wörtche, F. Mantovani] The programme Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy (EARTH) proposes to build ten underground facilities each hosting a telescope. Each telescope consists of many detector modules, to map the radiogenic heat sources deep in the interior of the Earth by utilising direction sensitive geoneutrino detection. Recent hypotheses target the core-mantle boundary (CMB) as a major source of natural radionuclides and therefore of radiogenic heat. A typical scale of the processes that take place at the CMB is about 200km. To observe these processes from the surface requires an angular resolution of about 3°. EARTH aims at creating a high-resolution 3D-map of the radiogenic heat sources in the Earth's interior. It will thereby contribute to a better understanding of a number of geophysical phenomena observed at the Earth's surface. This condition requires a completely different approach from the monolithic detector systems as e.g. KamLAND. This paper presents, for such telescopes, the boundary conditions set by physics, the estimated count rates, and the first initial results from Monte-Carlo simulations and laboratory experiments. The Monte-Carlo simulations indicate that the large volume telescope should consist of detector modules each comprising a very large number of detector units, with a cross section of roughly a few square centimetres. The signature of an antineutrino event will be a double pulse event. One pulse arises from the slowing down of the emitted positron, the other from the neutron capture. In laboratory experiments small sized, 10B-loaded liquid scintillation detectors were investigated as candidates for direction sensitive, low-energy antineutrino detection. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 antineutrino nationallicence antineutrino detector nationallicence core-mantle boundary nationallicence direction sensitive antineutrino detection nationallicence EARTH nationallicence geoneutrino nationallicence inverse beta-decay nationallicence 10B-loaded liquid scintillator nationallicence 3D-mapping of the Earth's interior nationallicence Monte-Carlo simulations nationallicence radiogenic heat sources nationallicence undergound antineutrino telescope nationallicence de Meijer R. Stichting EARTH, de Weehorst, 9321 XS2, Peize, The Netherlands aut Smit F. iThemba LABS, PO Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, South Africa aut Brooks F. Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa aut Fearick R. Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa aut Wörtche H. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 9747AA, Groningen, The Netherlands aut Mantovani F. Centro di GeoTecnologie, Siena University, Via Vetri Vecchi 34, I-52027, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy aut Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 193-206 0167-9295 99:1-4<193 2006 99 11038 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9104-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9104-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Meijer R. Stichting EARTH, de Weehorst, 9321 XS2, Peize, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smit F. iThemba LABS, PO Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brooks F. Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fearick R. Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wörtche H. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 9747AA, Groningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mantovani F. Centro di GeoTecnologie, Siena University, Via Vetri Vecchi 34, I-52027, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 193-206 0167-9295 99:1-4<193 2006 99 11038 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer