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Home Search Quick Search Advanced Fulltext Browse Collections Persons My eDoc Session History Login Name: Password: Documentation Help Support Wiki Direct access to document ID:	Institute: MPI für Kernphysik     Collection: Neutrino Physics     Display Documents ID: 49866.0, MPI für Kernphysik / Neutrino Physics KamLAND, terrestrial heat sources and neutrino oscillations Authors: Fiorentini, G.; Lasserre, T.; Lissia, M.; Ricci, B.; Schönert, Stefan Language: English Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): 2003-04-10 Title of Journal: Physics Letters B Journal Abbrev.: Phys.Lett. B. Volume: 558 Issue / Number: 1-2 Start Page: 15 End Page: 21 Review Status: Peer-review Audience: Experts Only Abstract / Description: We comment on the first indication of geo-neutrino events from KamLAND and on the prospects for understanding Earth energetics. Practically all models of terrestrial heat production are consistent with data within the presently limited statistics, the fully radiogenic model being closer to the observed value (approximate9 geo-events). In a few years KamLAND should collect sufficient data for a clear evidence of geo-neutrinos, however discrimination among models requires a detector with the class and size of KamLAND far away from nuclear reactors. We also remark that the event ratio from thorium and uranium decay chains is well fixed N(Th)/N(U)similar, equals0.25, a constraint that can be useful for determining neutrino oscillation parameters. We show that a full spectral analysis, including this constraint, further reduces the oscillation parameter space compared to an analysis with an energy threshold Evis>2.6 MeV. External Publication Status: published Document Type: Article Affiliations: MPI für Kernphysik/Independent Research Group S. Schönert/Neutrino Physics External Affiliations: Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Ferrara, I-44100, Ferrara, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Ferrara, I-44100, Ferrara, Italy; DSM/DAPNIA/SPP, CEA/Saclay, F-91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette cedex, France; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, I-09042, Cagliari, Italy e Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Cagliari, I-09042, Cagliari, Italy The scope and number of records on eDoc is subject to the collection policies defined by each institute - see "info" button in the collection browse view.