{"id":3861,"date":"2019-07-18T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:55:48","slug":"government-of-india-has-approved-a-project-to-build-the-india-based-neutrino-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/government-of-india-has-approved-a-project-to-build-the-india-based-neutrino-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of India has approved a project to build the India-based Neutrino Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Government of India has approved a project to build the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in the Theni District of Tamil Nadu. Briefly, the project aims to set up a 51000 ton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector to observe naturally occurring atmospheric neutrinos in a cavern at the end of an approximately 2 km long tunnel in a mountain. This will help to reduce the noise from cosmic rays that is ever present over-ground and which would outnumber the rare neutrino interactions even in a detector as large as ICAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The INO project does not disturb the ecosystem around the\nsite and does not release any radiation, as it does not have any radioactive\nsubstance. It measures cosmic rays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no other neutrino detector anywhere in India at\npresent. ICAL at INO would be the first of its type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This information was provided\nby the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of\nNorth-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances &amp;\nPensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in written reply to a\nquestion in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the aim ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main aim of the project is to set up a 51000 ton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector&nbsp;<br>The detector is placed to observe naturally occurring atmospheric neutrinos at the end of an approximately 2 km long tunnel in a mountain.<br>It is the first neutrino detector in India.<br>This will decrease the noise from cosmic rays that is ever-present over-ground and will outnumber the rare neutrino interactions even in a detector as large as ICAL.<br>It will measure cosmic rays and neither release any radiation nor radioactive substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India has approved a project to build the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in the Theni District of Tamil Nadu. Briefly, the project aims to set up a 51000 ton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector to observe naturally occurring atmospheric neutrinos in a cavern at the end of an approximately 2 km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[175],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-india-based-neutrino-observatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}