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