a Workshop on Neutrino Geoscience 2008

中微子地球科学研讨会 2008

• 批准号: 0841814
• 负责人: William McDonough
• 金额: $ 2.35万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2009-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0841814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Neutrino; Geoscience; 2008

A Workshop on Neutrino Geoscience will be held in September 2008 at SNOLab (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory). This 2.5-day meeting will have geology and particle physics talks focused on recent developments in global and Canadian geology, and geoneutrino experiments at SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory), KamLAND and Borexino. There will be ~60 participants, with roughly equal representation from both communities. There will be a tour of the SNO underground facility, including a view of the SNO+ experimental environment. This meeting will engage the North American geological and particle physics communities in an effort to foster collaborative research. The particle physics community seeks feedback and insights from the geological community in regards to knowledge about the K, Th and U content in the nearest 500 km radius, half-spherical volume beneath the SNO+ detector. The meeting organizers include Drs. Mark Chen (Queens University, Ontario, Canada), Claude Jaupart (University of Paris, France), Bill McDonough (University of Maryland, USA) and Roberta Rudnick (University of Maryland, USA). Significant progress has been made in exploiting the practical utility of antineutrino detection for geological and nonproliferation purposes, in particular, reactor monitoring. Despite these remarkable successes, these inter-related communities have had only modest overlap. As a result, the fields of applied and basic antineutrino physics lack an overarching strategy that would allow efficient exploitation of the resources and strengths provided by each stakeholder. This workshop aims to develop the basis for such a strategic alignment of interests between the fundamental and applied antineutrino physics communities, including geosciences.Broader Impact: The geonneutrino signal represents a background contribution to a global antineutrino signal, which also includes contributions from nuclear reactors and weapons related nuclear materials. Thus, understanding in detail the geoneutrino contributes greatly to the viability of antineutrino detection for nuclear nonproliferation purposes. Some applications are potentially important to maintaining a safe society that uses such nuclear materials. Intellectual Merit: The importance of this workshop will be to unite disparate groups of multi-disciplinary scientists with shared goals in antineutrino detection research and applications. A goal of the workshop is to develop stronger bonds of communications between these fields. This step is necessary in order to fully understand the various the components of an antineutrino spectrum and identify correctly the sources of the signal.

关于中微子地球科学的研讨会将于2008年9月在Snolab（Sudbury Neutminino天文台实验室）举行。这次为期2.5天的会议将进行地质和粒子物理谈判，重点介绍了全球和加拿大地质的最新发展，以及在SNO（Sudbury Neutrino天文台），Kamland和Borexino进行的地球植物实验。两个社区的参与者将有约60名参与者。将会参观SNO地下设施，包括SNO+实验环境的景色。这次会议将吸引北美地质和粒子物理社区，以促进协作研究。粒子物理界寻求有关地质群落的反馈和见解，以了解最接近500 km半径的K，TH和U含量的知识，在SNO+检测器下方的半明细。会议组织者包括Drs。马克·陈（Mark Chen）（加拿大安大略省皇后大学），克劳德·贾帕特（Claude Jaupart）（法国巴黎大学），比尔·麦克唐纳（Bill McDonough）（美国马里兰州大学）和罗伯塔·鲁德尼克（Roberta Rudnick）（美国马里兰州大学）。在利用抗肿瘤检测的实际实用性方面取得了重大进展，特别是反应堆监测。尽管取得了巨大的成功，但这些相互关联的社区只有适度的重叠。结果，应用和基本的抗神经物理学领域缺乏总体策略，可以有效利用每个利益相关者提供的资源和优势。该研讨会旨在为基本和应用抗神经物理群落（包括地球科学）之间的这种战略利益的依据建立基础。BROADER的影响：Geonneutrino信号代表了对全球抗神经信号的背景贡献，其中还包括来自核反应器和武器相关的核材料的贡献。因此，详细理解地球植物对抗肿瘤检测的可行性有很大贡献。某些应用对于维持使用此类核材料的安全社会可能很重要。知识分子的优点：该研讨会的重要性将是将不同的多学科科学家群体团结起来，具有抗肿瘤检测研究和应用中的共同目标。研讨会的目标是在这些领域之间建立更牢固的通信纽带。为了充分理解抗肿瘤光谱的各个组件并正确识别信号源的各种成分，这是必要的。