| Title | Indian Neutrino Observatory Set for Construction | |
| Date | Tuesday January 13 2015, @01:38AM | |
| Author | Blackmoore | |
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| from the deep-in-the-hart-of-mount-doom dept. | ||
India is joining the world of exotic particle research, announcing US$235 million worth of funding for a neutrino observatory in the country's south.
Approval for the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), proposed in 2013, means construction of the underground complex can now begin.
The 1,300 metre deep cavern under the village of Pottipuram will be home to a 50,000 tonne iron calorimeter (ICAL) acting as the detector. The ICAL is to be made of 30,000 resistive plate chambers separated by iron plates.
Physics World reports ( http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/jan/07/indian-neutrino-observatory-set-for-construction ) that the INO will look for evidence of the neutrino mass hierarchy, trying to work out which of the three known neutrino mass states is the heaviest and which is the lightest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/11/india_to_launch_neutrino_hunter/
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