Antineutrino geophysics with liquid scintillator detectors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1083-1086

  Rothschild, Casey G ^a   Chen, Mark C ^a   Calaprice, Frank P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TECTONICS; THORIUM; URANIUM; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS;

ANTINEUTRINOS; GLOBAL CRUSTAL MAPS; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; NEUTRINO DETECTORS; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; SPECIFIC SITES; SPECTRAL FEATURE;

RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; RADIOACTIVITY;

ANTINEUTRINO; CRUST; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; MANTLE; RADIOACTIVE DECAY;

EID: 0032051232     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50667     Document Type: Article

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