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Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino — HN submission

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:48:40 GMT

Comprehensive Geoneutrino Analysis with Borexino

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Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino — mentioned by perihelions

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:27:39 GMT

Err, that SciAm author misunderstood that research... what they wrote is exactly backwards. The neutrino observations they're talking about disproved the natural nuclear reactor hypothesis. There is no antineutrino signal from the Earth of the type a nuclear fission process would emit. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02257 ("Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino") What Borexino found was about 25 terawatts of radioactive decay occurring inside the Earth—alpha decay of 238U and 232Th. But, no nuclear fission. If there are fissioning critical masses inside the Earth, the total amount…

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Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino — HN submission

Fri, 06 May 2022 08:44:52 GMT

Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino (2020)

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Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino — mentioned by perihelions

Fri, 06 May 2022 08:29:15 GMT

Neutrino observatories have ruled it out (for meaningfully large aggregate power levels). - "...hypothetical georeactor at the center of the Earth having power greater than 2.4 TW at 95% C.L. is excluded" https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02257 (That physics paper counts more coauthors than neutrinos!)

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