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New Method Proposed to Probe Earth’s Layers, Using Particle Physics

by PhysOrg staff

Researchers from Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth.

There’s just one catch: The technique relies on a fifth force of nature (in addition to gravity, the weak and strong nuclear forces and electromagnetism) that has not yet been detected, but which some particle physicists think might exist. Physicists call this type of force a long-range spin-spin interaction. If it does exist, this exotic new force would connect matter at Earth’s surface with matter hundreds or even thousands of kilometers below, deep in Earth’s mantle.

In other words, the building blocks of atoms—electrons, protons, and neutrons—separated over vast distances would “feel” each other’s presence. The way these particles interact could provide new information about the composition and characteristics of the mantle, which is poorly understood because of its inaccessibility…

(read more: PhyOrg)                

(images: T -  Marc Airhart (UT - Austin) and Steve Jacobsen (Northwestern Univ.); B - Daniel Ang and Larry Hunter (Amherst College))

reference:

Using the Earth as a Polarized Electron Source to Search for Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions, by L. Hunter et al, Science, 2013.

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