International Workshop on KamLAND Geoscience

; Toward Enhanced Reference Earth Models for Geoneutrino Analysis

January 15-16, 2015, in Tokyo

1. ✦ Welcome

1. ✦ General Information

1. ✦ Committees

Bill McDonough (University of Maryland)

Fabio Mantovani (University of Ferrara)

Hiroyuki Tanaka (University of Tokyo)

Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)

Hiroko Watanabe (Tohoku University)

Location : Tokyo Prince Hotel

Deadline for Registration : December 31, 2014

Registration Fee : 3,000 JPY

  The first international workshop on KamLAND Geoscience will be held in Tokyo, Japan on January 15-16, 2015.

  Anti-neutrinos emitted from radioactive isotopes inside the Earth, geo-neutrino, bring unique and direct information of the Earth’s interior and thermal dynamics.  KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Antineutrino Detector) experiment published the first experimental results on geo-neutrino in 2005, and showed that neutrinos can be used to study the Earth.  The recent long-term shutdown of Japanese reactors has resulted in a significantly reduced reactor neutrino flux at KamLAND.  This running condition yield improved sensitivity for geo-neutrino.

  The purpose of this workshop is to further connections between geoscience and neutrino physics in Japan and discuss efforts to enhance the predicted geo-neutrino signals at KamLAND.

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