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Less‐elusive neutrinos to look for oil and gas deposits

AUG 01, 1983

DOI: 10.1063/1.2915793

Four well‐known particle physicists recently went public with a far‐out scheme using high‐energy neutrinos to explore far into the depths of the Earth. The group—Alvaro De Rujula (CERN), Sheldon Glashow (Harvard), Robert R. Wilson (Columbia) and Georges Charpak (CERN)—suggested a number of such geological studies: exploration for oil, natural gas and high‐Z ores, and determination of the vertical density profile of the Earth.

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Volume 36, Number 8

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