Review Article
Studying the Earth with Geoneutrinos
Table 3
The most important backgrounds in geoneutrino measurements of Borexino [
62] and KamLAND [
51].
| | Borexino | KamLAND |
| Period | Dec 07–Aug 12 | Mar 02–Nov 12 | Exposure (proton year) | (3.69 0.16) | (4.9 0.1) | Reactor- events (no osc.) | 60.4 4.1 | 3564 145 | C(, )O events | 0.13 0.01 | 207.1 26.3 | Li-He events | 0.25 0.18 | 31.6 1.9 | Accidental events | 0.206 0.004 | 125.5 0.1 | Total non- backgrounds | 0.70 0.18 | 364.1 30.5 |
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