2006/11/30 by Steve Dye, S.T. Dye
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Flux (metallurgy) #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Observatory #Software deployment #Thorium #Uranium #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.02.012
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.168:144-146,2007 · 3 pages- paper presented at NOW 2006, Lecce, Italy
arxiv created 2006/12/15 · openalex publication_date 2007/05/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This paper presents science potential of a deep ocean antineutrino observatory under development at Hawaii. The observatory design allows for relocation from one site to another. Positioning the observatory some 60 km distant from a nuclear reactor complex enables precision measurement of neutrino mixing parameters, leading to a determination of neutrino mass hierarchy. At a mid-Pacific location the observatory measures the flux and ratio of uranium and thorium decay neutrinos from earth's mantle and performs a sensitive search for a hypothetical natural fission reactor in earth's core. A subsequent deployment at another mid-ocean location would test lateral heterogeneity of uranium and thorium in earth's mantle.