Neutrino Geoscience 2010

6 Oct 2010, 09:00 → 8 Oct 2010, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Majorana Room (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

Neutrino Geoscience 2010 is the fourth international conference dedicated to geo-neutrinos, geo-reactor neutrinos, methods of detection and detector development. First introduced by Eder and Marx in the 1960s and less then half century later the technique for identifying geo-neutrinos is available: in 2005 KamLAND claimed the first detection of geo-neutrinos, and in 2007 Borexino began taking data, measuring geo-neutrinos events with a high purity detector in a low reactor background setting. Geo-neutrinos are antineutrinos from natural radioactivity inside the Earth and they are a new probe of Earth’s interior. This new field of science bridges neutrino physics and geology, as recently emphasised by numerous papers written by both scientific communities. The Gran Sasso Underground Laboratories hosts Borexino, one of the most important experiments for detecting the geo-neutrinos. In this extraordinary location the conference will bring from around the world leaders in neutrino detection together with experts in geology to share the latest information and to map the path towards future measurements. For more information please check the workshop website here: http://geoscience.lngs.infn.it/