Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes

AAP Koppers, TW Becker, MG Jackson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The existence of mantle plumes was first proposed in the 1970s to explain intra-plate,
hotspot volcanism, yet owing to difficulties in resolving mantle upwellings with geophysical …

What Hf isotopes in zircon tell us about crust–mantle evolution

T Iizuka, T Yamaguchi, K Itano, Y Hibiya, K Suzuki - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The 176 Lu–176 Hf radioactive decay system has been widely used to study
planetary crust–mantle differentiation. Of considerable utility in this regard is zircon, a …

Neutrino physics with JUNO

F An, G An, Q An, V Antonelli, E Baussan… - Journal of Physics G …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose
underground liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino …

Reactor on-off antineutrino measurement with KamLAND

A Gando, Y Gando, H Hanakago, H Ikeda, K Inoue… - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
The recent long-term shutdown of Japanese nuclear reactors has resulted in a significantly
reduced reactor ν¯ e flux at KamLAND. This running condition provides a unique opportunity …

Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino

M Agostini, K Altenmüller, S Appel, V Atroshchenko… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
This paper presents a comprehensive geoneutrino measurement using the Borexino
detector, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. The analysis is the …

A reference Earth model for the heat‐producing elements and associated geoneutrino flux

Y Huang, V Chubakov, F Mantovani… - Geochemistry …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The recent geoneutrino experimental results from KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid Scintillator
Antineutrino Detector) and Borexino detectors reveal the usefulness of analyzing the Earth's …

Morphology of seismically slow lower-mantle structures

S Cottaar, V Lekic - … Supplements to the Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs), whose origin and dynamic implication remain
enigmatic, dominate the lowermost mantle. For decades, seismologists have created …

Density structure of Earth's lowermost mantle from Stoneley mode splitting observations

P Koelemeijer, A Deuss, J Ritsema - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in our understanding of Earth's thermal evolution and the style of mantle
convection rely on robust seismological constraints on lateral variations of density. The large …

Prospects for Light Dark Matter Searches at Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors

B Dutta, WC Huang, D Kim, JL Newstead, JC Park… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV–GeV mass, via
inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE …

Physics prospects of the **** neutrino experiment

JF Beacom, S Chen, J Cheng… - Chinese physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The China **** Underground Laboratory (CJPL), which has the lowest cosmic-
ray muon flux and the lowest reactor neutrino flux of any laboratory, is ideal to carry out low …