Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) Flashcards
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Context?
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world’s biggest underwater neutrino telescopes called the Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) in the waters of Lake Baikail
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What & where is Lake baikal?
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-world’s deepest lake situated in Siberia.
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Lake baikal on world map
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https://habitat.fisheries.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/LB-map-1-768x386.jpg
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About Baikal- GVD?
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- one of the three largest neutrino detectors in the world along with the IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea.
- to study in detail the elusive fundamental particles called neutrinos
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What are neutrinos?
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- second most widely occurring particle in the universe, after photons
- so abundant among us that every second, there are more than 100 trillion of them passing right through each of us
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Properties of neutrinos?
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- Fundamental : Can’t be broken in smaller bits
- abundant
- elusive : hard to cath
- Oscillating : Neutrinos have 3 types AKA flavours i.e. electron neutrinos,muon neutrinoes,tau neutrinoes -> ani pratyek neutrino ya tighanmadhe firat rahato,i.e. flavour change karat rahato.
- Lightweight & superfast
Diverse : They are produced by nuclear reactions in sun,particle decays in earth,explosions of stars & in nuclear power plants.
Mysterious : their is possibility of existence of 4th neutrino ; scientists also believe that neutrinos can be their own antiparticles i.e. opposites.
