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INDIAN SCIENTISTS TO SET UP LAB TO STUDY NEUTRINOS
By P. Vijian
CHENNAI, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- India moves into high energy research with the
proposed building of a special observatory, carved inside mountains to explore
neutrinos.
This makes it the fifth of its kind in the world, after Canada, Japan, Italy
and the United States.
The Indian Government has approved the estimated US$250 million (nearly
RM779 million) project that would put Indian physicists on par with foreign
scientists from the four countries -- a research likely to pave the way for "new
physics".
"(It) is high energy research to study the characteristic of neutrinos that
are
smaller than atomic particles.
"Neutrinos are cosmic particles that can pass through any object like stars
or
the sun, without being disturbed. This will be a new breakthrough in
understanding physics, a new paradigm of physics," Dr Chinnaraj Joseph Jaikumar,
Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) chairman told Bernama in a recent interview.
Neutrinos are basic particles that travel close to the speed of light,
unaffected by electromagnetic forces that have earned itself a nickname, "ghost
particles", from leading scientists.
The atmospheric sensitive laboratory is to be located in the Western Ghats
Mountain (Bodi West Hills) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu state in South India -- where
scientists would bore more than a kilometre-deep tunnel into the rocky mountains
to set up the scientific centre.
The laboratory would be equipped with 50,000kg electro-magnetic instruments
to enable scientists from 26 Indian agencies to analyse the behaviour of
neutrinos in the cosmic.
"There are two possible applications of this study, to understand the
internal structure of the earth -- its turbulence, why tsunami or earthquakes
occur and the movement of the earth's plates.
"The other would be to understand the internal structure of the human body
better, so that it can help in the detection of diseases like cancer in its
early stage," said Chinnaraj.
The environment and forests ministry has approved the project, and the
actual research is expected to begin in three to five years, once the
observatory is completed.
-- BERNAMA
CHENNAI, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- India moves into high energy research with the
proposed building of a special observatory, carved inside mountains to explore
neutrinos.
This makes it the fifth of its kind in the world, after Canada, Japan, Italy
and the United States.
The Indian Government has approved the estimated US$250 million (nearly
RM779 million) project that would put Indian physicists on par with foreign
scientists from the four countries -- a research likely to pave the way for "new
physics".
"(It) is high energy research to study the characteristic of neutrinos that
are
smaller than atomic particles.
"Neutrinos are cosmic particles that can pass through any object like stars
or
the sun, without being disturbed. This will be a new breakthrough in
understanding physics, a new paradigm of physics," Dr Chinnaraj Joseph Jaikumar,
Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) chairman told Bernama in a recent interview.
Neutrinos are basic particles that travel close to the speed of light,
unaffected by electromagnetic forces that have earned itself a nickname, "ghost
particles", from leading scientists.
The atmospheric sensitive laboratory is to be located in the Western Ghats
Mountain (Bodi West Hills) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu state in South India -- where
scientists would bore more than a kilometre-deep tunnel into the rocky mountains
to set up the scientific centre.
The laboratory would be equipped with 50,000kg electro-magnetic instruments
to enable scientists from 26 Indian agencies to analyse the behaviour of
neutrinos in the cosmic.
"There are two possible applications of this study, to understand the
internal structure of the earth -- its turbulence, why tsunami or earthquakes
occur and the movement of the earth's plates.
"The other would be to understand the internal structure of the human body
better, so that it can help in the detection of diseases like cancer in its
early stage," said Chinnaraj.
The environment and forests ministry has approved the project, and the
actual research is expected to begin in three to five years, once the
observatory is completed.
-- BERNAMA
