Probing the absolute density of the Earth's core using a vertical neutrino beam

Abstract

We demonstrate that one could measure the absolute matter density of the Earth's core with a vertical neutrino factory baseline at the per cent level for ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}\gtrsim 0.01$, where we include all correlations with the oscillation parameters in the analysis. We discuss the geographical feasibility of such an approach, and illustrate how the results change as a function of the detector location. We point out the complementarity to geophysics.

Comments: Second column in Table I corrected; 4 pages, 4 figures (color online)