Geoneutrino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Geoneutrino is an electron antineutrino emitted in β− decay of a radionuclide naturally occurring in the Earth. Neutrinos are the lightest of the known subatomic particles. They lack measurable electromagnetic properties and dominantly interact via the weak nuclear force. Matter is virtually transparent to neutrinos and consequently they travel, unimpeded, at near light speed through the Earth from their point of emission. Collectively geoneutrinos carry the integrated information about the abundances of their radioactive sources inside the Earth. Extracting a geologically useful information (e.g., abundances of individual geoneutrino producing elements and their spatial distribution in Earth’s interior) from geoneutrino measurements is a major objective of the emerging field of neutrino geophysics."
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