Kathrin Hochmuth MPI München

Taking a picture of the earth's interior with geoneutrinos (pdf)

Geoneutrinos recently have become rather popular especially after KamLAND has deteted first events. The question is now if one can resolve the angular distribution of these neutrinos in order to locate radioactive elements in the earth. In my talk I will briefly introduce some basic geophysical models for the distribution of natural radioctive elements and discuss how applicable they are to reality. I will present some theoretical results as to how an angular distribution spectrum of geoneutrinos might look like. Conclusively the results shall be examined in the light of their experimental detectability with a large volume liquid scintillation detector.