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SAIL may supply 50k tonne of iron plates for Neutrino Project
NEW DELHI: SAIL (the Steel Authority of India) has proposed to supply 50,000 tonne of iron plates for an ambitious project related to the country's nuclear science research, Parliament was informed today.
The 'India based Neutrino Observatory' (INO) project, considered to be one of the biggest experimental nuclear physics projects undertaken in the country, will have an underground observatory in Tamil Nadu.
"On the request of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) proposes to supply 50,000 tonne soft iron plate for the INO project," Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
A trial production of the plates has already been carried out at the Bhilai steel plant, as per the composition and process parameters decided jointly by SAIL and BARC,
he added.
"The plates have been found acceptable...The time schedule will be worked out jointly by SAIL and BARC as and when firm order is placed by BARC," Verma further said.
According to the Minister, the INO detector will be a stack of 150 layers of magnetised iron plates of a particular specification and 15,000 such plates will be required to complete it.
As per the official website of the INO, the ambitious project is a multi-institutional effort, including that of BARC, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai.
It consists of construction of an Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector for studying neutrinos, with 50,000 tonne of magnetised iron plates.
When completed, the detector will be the world's most massive magnet detector and four times larger than the 12,500- tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector of CERN ( European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Geneva.![Woot :woot: :woot:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cute/woot.gif)
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The detector at INO is being constructed with an aim to understand several fundamental issues regarding the nature and interactions of neutrinos, which are among the fundamental particles of atom. According to standard model of particle physics, neutrinos are mass-less.
However, the INO website notes that determination of neutrino masses and mixing parameters is one of the most important problems in physics. Some recent experiments have indicated that neutrinos have finite, very small mass but it is unknown.
The observatory for the project is proposed to be located with a rock cover of about 1,200 metre under the Bodi West Hills
, near Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
SAIL may supply 50k tonne of iron plates for Neutrino Project - The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: SAIL (the Steel Authority of India) has proposed to supply 50,000 tonne of iron plates for an ambitious project related to the country's nuclear science research, Parliament was informed today.
The 'India based Neutrino Observatory' (INO) project, considered to be one of the biggest experimental nuclear physics projects undertaken in the country, will have an underground observatory in Tamil Nadu.
"On the request of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) proposes to supply 50,000 tonne soft iron plate for the INO project," Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
A trial production of the plates has already been carried out at the Bhilai steel plant, as per the composition and process parameters decided jointly by SAIL and BARC,
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"The plates have been found acceptable...The time schedule will be worked out jointly by SAIL and BARC as and when firm order is placed by BARC," Verma further said.
According to the Minister, the INO detector will be a stack of 150 layers of magnetised iron plates of a particular specification and 15,000 such plates will be required to complete it.
As per the official website of the INO, the ambitious project is a multi-institutional effort, including that of BARC, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai.
It consists of construction of an Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector for studying neutrinos, with 50,000 tonne of magnetised iron plates.
When completed, the detector will be the world's most massive magnet detector and four times larger than the 12,500- tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector of CERN ( European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Geneva.
![Woot :woot: :woot:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cute/woot.gif)
![Woot :woot: :woot:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cute/woot.gif)
![Bounce Grn :bounce: :bounce:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cute/bounce-grn.gif)
The detector at INO is being constructed with an aim to understand several fundamental issues regarding the nature and interactions of neutrinos, which are among the fundamental particles of atom. According to standard model of particle physics, neutrinos are mass-less.
However, the INO website notes that determination of neutrino masses and mixing parameters is one of the most important problems in physics. Some recent experiments have indicated that neutrinos have finite, very small mass but it is unknown.
The observatory for the project is proposed to be located with a rock cover of about 1,200 metre under the Bodi West Hills
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SAIL may supply 50k tonne of iron plates for Neutrino Project - The Economic Times