An underground lab planned for India aims to, among other things, nail the neutrino mass hierarchy and increase the number of high-energy experimenters in the country.
The India-based Neutrino Observatory—so named because the 20 physicists at seven Indian institutions who spearheaded INO hope it will eventually become an international project—has in the past year received initial approval and promises of funding from the Indian government. Final approval is expected in the next few months, says project spokesman Naba Mondal of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. The project now has some 100 individual members from 25 institutes, with the University of Hawaii the only one outside of India so far. “It is the first time such a large collaboration from various institutions in India have come together to build an experiment that will be located and function in the country,” Mondal says. It’s also the largest and, at...
