caa a22 4500 467897204 CHVBK 20180406152807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11038-006-9111-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11038-006-9111-9 Probing the Earth's Interior with the LENA Detector [Elektronische Daten] [Kathrin Hochmuth, Franz Feilitzsch, Teresa Undagoitia, Lothar Oberauer, Walter Potzel, Michael Wurm, Brian Fields] A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector such as the proposed 50kton LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from β-decays of the uranium and thorium chains. Additionally, the neutron is scattered in the forward direction in the detection reaction $$\bar{\nu}_e+p\rightarrow n+e^+$$ . Henceforth, we investigate to what extent LENA can distinguish between certain geophysical models on the basis of the angular dependence of the geoneutrino flux. Our analysis is based on a Monte-Carlo simulation with different levels of light yield, considering an unloaded PXE scintillator. We find that LENA is able to detect deviations from isotropy of the geoneutrino flux with high significance. However, if only the directional information is used, the time required to distinguish between different geophysical models is of the order of severals decades. Nonetheless, a high-statistics measurement of the total geoneutrino flux and its spectrum still provides an extremely useful glance at the Earth's interior. Springer, 2006 Low energy neutrino astronomy nationallicence geoneutrinos nationallicence Hochmuth Kathrin Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, München, Germany aut Feilitzsch Franz Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Undagoitia Teresa Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Oberauer Lothar Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Potzel Walter Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Wurm Michael Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Fields Brian Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 253-264 0167-9295 99:1-4<253 2006 99 11038 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9111-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9111-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hochmuth Kathrin Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, München, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Feilitzsch Franz Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Undagoitia Teresa Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oberauer Lothar Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Potzel Walter Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wurm Michael Physik Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fields Brian Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 253-264 0167-9295 99:1-4<253 2006 99 11038 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer