Mapping deep-mantle compositional heterogeneity using a directional geoneutrino detector

arXiv:2606.15680 · physics.geo-ph, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-06-14 · Read on arXiv

Zhihao Xu, Misaki Hosoya, William F. McDonough, Taichi Sakai, Hiroko Watanabe

physics.geo-ph, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-06-14

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ocean Bottom Detector — 10× in this paper
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Enhancing Angular Sensitivity of Segmented Antineutrino Detectors for Reactor Monitoring
• Global Antineutrino Modeling for a Web Application
• Testing a proposed "second continent" beneath eastern China using geoneutrino measurements
• Potassium-40 geoneutrinos detection and the Earth's large-scale structures imaging by directional geoneutrino detection
• Towards imaging Earth's large-scale structures by directional geoneutrino detection with Ocean Bottom Detector

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