At the Lake Baikal was recently put into operation a deep-water neutrino telescope multimegatonnogo scale “Dubna” (experimental complex).
The complex is the first cluster of the developed scale neutrino telescope kubokilometrovogo Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector), according to the website of the Institute for Nuclear Research.
The detector will be used to study the natural flow of high-energy neutrinos. After passing through the thickness of the Earth, neutrinos have a chance capable to interact in the water of Lake Baikal and produce a cascade of charged particles. Cherenkov light from charged particles distributed in water and recorded optical modules installation.
The cluster “Dubna” has 192 optical modules that dive to a depth of 1.3 kilometers and is one of the three largest neutrino detector in the world.
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Another step in the development of this project will be the consistent increase in the telescope through the deployment of new clusters. It is expected that by 2020, will create a setting of 10-12 clusters, totaling about 0.5 cubic kilometers.
Scientists believe that the registration of neutrinos at Baikal will allow a better understanding of high-energy processes that occur in distant astrophysical sources as well as the origin of cosmic rays of the highest ever recorded energy to open new properties of elementary particles and to learn a lot about the evolution and structure of the universe as a whole.
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