India digs deep to build neutrino lab

摘要

India's high-energy physicists have been given the go-ahead to build an underground laboratory to study neutrinos.rnThe plan to investigate these elusive subatomic particles has been in the works since 2001. But the Department of Atomic Energy has now given it the green light and the nation's planning commission has approved its funding, says Naba Mondal, a physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and spokesman for the project. It is expected to cost US$170 million to build and should be online by 2012.