Establishment of India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO)! The Union Cabinet of the Govt. of India chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the establishment of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at an estimated cost of Rs.1500 crores. The INO project is jointly supported by the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology. Infrastructural support is provided by the Government of Tamil Nadu where the project is located. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai is the host institute for INO. This project aims at building a world class underground laboratory primarily to study neutrinos. The underground laboratory will be set up near Pottipuram village, Theni District, Tamilnadu. In addition, an Inter -Institutional Centre for High Energy Physics (IICHEP) will also be established at the city of Madurai which is about 110 km from the proposed INO site for operationalizing the underground laboratory and also for detector R & D and human resource development. Along with setting up the underground laboratory and the IICHEP, Government of India also approved the construction of a 50 kton magnetised Iron Calorimeter detector (ICAL) to study the properties of neutrinos and specially to address the issue of neutrino mass hierarchy. 21 research institutes, universities and IITs from India are currently working for setting up the ICAL detector. The 50 kton ICAL detector will consist of alternate layers of particle detectors called Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) and iron plates. The iron plates will be magnetized with 1.4 Tesla magnetic field. Over 30,000 RPCs will be used in this detector. A total of over 3.7 million channels of electronics will carry the signals from these RPCs to be finally stored in the computer. INO-ICAL collaboration: *Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad *Aligarh Muslim University *Harish Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad *Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar *Utkal University, Bhubaneswar *University of Calicut *Panjab University , Chandigarh *Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) *The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai *Delhi University *Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata *University of Calcutta , Kolkata *Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata *Lucknow University *American College, Madurai *Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai *Indian Institute of Technology, (IITB), Mumbai *Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai *University of Mysore *University of Kashmir, Srinagar *Banaras Hindu University
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:43:56 +0000
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