{"id":8026,"date":"2019-07-13T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2019-07-13T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:41:05","slug":"setting-up-of-neutrino-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/setting-up-of-neutrino-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up of Neutrino Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Government of India has approved a project to build the India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO) at Pottipuram in Theni District of Tamil Nadu.<\/li><li>A <strong>neutrino<\/strong> is a subatomic particle with no electric charge.They are considered to be the second most abundant particle in the universe after photons or light particles.<\/li><li>Neutrinos were initially thought to be massless particles but recent experiments suggest that they indeed have a very small mass.<\/li><li>Currently,three types of neutrinos called flavors are known:(a)Electron Neutrino (b)Muon Neutrino and (c)Tauon Neutrino.Further,Neutrinos can change from one flavor to another as they travel.This process is called <strong>neutrino oscillation.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Neutrinos<\/strong> are important as they hold the key to several important and fundamental questions on the origin of the Universe and the energy production in stars.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Further,if the properties of neutrinos can be studied better,they can also be used in astronomy to discover what the universe is made up of.<\/li><li>The <strong>India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO)<\/strong> is a proposed science underground laboratory.Its primary goal is to study the properties and interactions of neutrinos.<\/li><li>INO project is jointly supported by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Department of Science &amp; Technology (DST) with DAE acting as the nodal agency.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),Mumbai is the host institute for INO project.<\/li><li>The objective of INO is to study neutrinos produced from cosmic rays in Earth\u2019s atmosphere to make precision measurements of the parameters related to neutrino oscillations.<\/li><li>INO will also study mass ordering of three types of neutrino by using Iron Calorimeter(ICAL) detector.<\/li><\/ol>\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 Theni District of Tamil Nadu. A neutrino is a subatomic particle with no electric charge.They are considered to be the second most abundant particle in the universe after photons or light particles. Neutrinos were initially thought to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/setting-up-of-neutrino-observatory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Setting up of Neutrino Observatory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2540,2417,1888],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-ino","tag-neutrino","tag-tamil-nadu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700801293,"cached_date":1704954947},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}