Underground Lair: Indian Scientists Launch Dark Matter Lab Under Uranium Mine

[ashok321]

Indian scientists have finally started their research on dark matter at the Jaduguda Underground Science Laboratory, 550 meters below the surface in an operating uranium mine

New Delhi – To accommodate the new facility, the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics has repurposed a 37-square-meter cavern used for storage at the Jaduguda uranium mining complex, including installing a low-temperature cesium iodide detector to search for dark matter.


The proposal for such a study was made five years ago: Indian physicists were running from pillar to post seeking a new underground research laboratory after the closure of a similar facility at Bharat Gold Mine in the southern state of Karnataka in early 1992. The right location was key: an underground lab is important for scientists studying dark matter because radiation from outer space usually contaminates such experiments.

Illustration of the possible layout of the quarks in a pentaquark particle discovered at CERN

"In the frontier science area, we are establishing a small underground research laboratory in one of our uranium mines for pursuing research on dark matter. This will enthuse scientists from all generations," Sekhar Basu, secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy of India, said at the 61st General Council of IAEA on Wednesday.

India conceptualized the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project in 2012 as a multi-institutional effort aimed at building a world-class underground laboratory and associated surface facilities in the Bodi West hills of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. It was delayed due to petitions filed by activists, however.

This underground lab located at Jadugoda will provide the much-awaited facility for a part of INO called multiton-scale dark matter search experiment or DINO (Darkmatter@INO). However, Jadugoda lab is only a mini-DINO — India is planning a large-scale DINO experiment at a future stage.

"We knew of an estimated 5 percent of the possible 30 percent [of] matters existing in the universe and this new facility will help us to research about the unknown matters," Basu said earlier this month. A quantitative understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature is also lacking, he said.

https://sputniknews.com/society/201709211057593508-Indian-Scientists-Launch-Dark-Matter-Lab/

 

[ashok321]

India conceptualized the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project in 2012

Yes.
Man Mohan Singh.

Yet some Indian dog will take credit for it:

 

[ashok321]

What (anything that) Modi did here?

Common Modians & RSSer...!

 

[T90TankGuy]

Guys ignore the false flagger!!

 

[Chellam]

Guys ignore the false flagger!!

He is over Hyper Personality nothing to do with that

 

[T90TankGuy]

He is over Hyper Personality nothing to do with that

He is not indian.

 

[BATMAN]

That's the picture from a lab in Switzerland.
if Indians claim to own it, than I can claim its been built by Pakistanis.

 

[Chellam]

That's the picture from a lab in Switzerland.
if Indians claim to own it, than I can claim its been built by Pakistanis.

we never claimed, read the news and who posted the news

it's not our mistake if someone posted that

 

[T90TankGuy]

this fool is a false flagger pakistani, trying to pose as an Indian everyone know that.

I believe he is a Bangladeshi .
His hatred for our PM is an obsession . i wish he would talk on issues instead of blaming the PM for everything .