Probing the Earth's interior with a large-volume liquid scintillator detector

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Hochmuth, Kathrin A ^a,b   Feilitzsch, Franz v ^a   Fields, Brian D ^c   Undagoitia, Teresa Marrodán ^a   Oberauer, Lothar ^a   Potzel, Walter ^a   Raffelt, Georg G ^b   Wurm, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Geoneutrinos; Liquid scintillator detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; EARTH (PLANET); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS;

GEONEUTRINO FLUX; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS; LOW ENERGY NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY (LENA);

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33846062276     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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