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- noun Plural form of
geoneutrino .
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"geoneutrinos" - neutrinos produced within the planet itself.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Using the Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Antineutrino Detector KamLAND located under a mountain in Japan, they analyzed geoneutrinos - ones emitted by decaying radioactive materials within the Earth - over the course of more than seven years.
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The 2005 "discovery" at KamLAND not only described the finding of geoneutrinos but also used them to calculate the total energy coming from radioactive elements in the Earth.
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He said the rival team's claims were honest, however, in that they said their findings were consistent with geoneutrinos.
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Back in 2005, the cover of the journal Nature proclaimed that a different international group, including two Drexel physicists, had just discovered geoneutrinos.
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The physicists say catching geoneutrinos makes detecting the solar kind seem easy, so it's not that surprising that there's been some confusion.
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If you could detect enough of them, said Princeton geoscientist Thomas Duffy, geoneutrinos could tell you something about the source of heat that drives the slow drift of the geological plates, and on our time scale, brings forth earthquakes and volcanoes.
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But as time went on, physicists at both experiments realized they had a shot at finding a few of the long-sought geoneutrinos.
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Drexel physicist Jelena Maricic, who was part of the KamLAND team, said that when they got through with the statistical analysis, their 2005 detections were 95 percent certain to include some geoneutrinos.
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On the downside, KamLAND's detector is subject to lots of "noise," since it's surrounded by nuclear power plants and these are constantly spewing neutrinos that might be mistaken for geoneutrinos.
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