Re: Earth georeactor - recent publications

[daleboyce@charter.net]

Earth georeactor - recent publicationsFranta,



It's an interesting article.  My first reaction was to wonder how they sort the georeactor signal out from the solar flux.  Most of the solar flux is neutrinos instead of antineutrinos. Since the main fusion cycle in the sun doesn't generate any neutrons, the products tend to be neutron deficient.  I don't have a ready reference, but I would expect there to be some component that does generate neutrons.  For example D + D -> He3 + n.  The neutrino from the beta decay of the neutron wouldn't be energetic enough to produce a positron though.  However it could be captured to form an isotope that does have a high enough decay energy.  The rate should be small compared to the neutrino flux, so it may not be an issue.



My other question would be how are they differentiating positrons from negatrons? It doesn't say anything about looking for the annihilation gamma-rays, and a positron looks a lot like a negatron in a scintillation counter.



All this may be well thought through, but it would be interesting to know how they are making the differentiation.  Ray Davis got a piece of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002 for his solar neutrino work that began in 1964.  For years his results that the solar neutrino flux was a factor of 3 lower than predicted were looked upon as flawed, but he kept up the battle and was vindicated. The electron neutrino flux was low due to oscillations of electron neutrinos into other flavors of neutrino, and their energy was too low to create the inverse reaction into their respective lepton.



If the georeactor detector has a background due to solar neutrinos then picking the signal out of the background could be difficult.  That's an understatement since the experiment is very difficult to begin.



Now off to dust off the old E&M book to see if 3TW is enough to generate the earth's magnetic field.  Small field but big magnet.  Thanks for the post.  It's something to play with for a bit.



Does anyone know more about these experiments?



Dale



----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Franta, Jaroslav 

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  Subject: Earth georeactor - recent publications





  A couple of publications from Russia's RAS and the Kurchatov Institute, and one from the Netherlands, are available in pdf format on Marvin Herndon's web site, nuclearplanet.com



  G. Domogatski, V. Kopeikin, L. Milaelyan and V. Sinev, "Neutrino Geophysics at Baksan I: Possible Detection of Georeactor Antineutrinos" arXiv.org (January 28, 2004).



  http://www.nuclearplanet.com/Neutrino%20Geophysics%20at%20Baksan%20I.pdf 

  And also arXiv.org (March 17, 2004). 

  http://www.nuclearplanet.com/0403155.pdf 



  R. J. de Meijer, E. R. van der Graaf and K. P. Jungmann, "Quest for a Nuclear Georeactor", arXiv.org (April 8, 2004). 

  http://www.nuclearplanet.com/0404046.pdf 



  It appears that interest in this is building world-wide. 

  Exciting times ! 



  Jaro 



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