Russia launched an underwater telescope on Lake Baikal
The largest neutrino telescope in the northern hemisphere, Baikal-GVD, began work today on Lake Baikal.
This was reported on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We will all understand together how the Universe works, read the history of the Universe, how galaxies were born,” said Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov at the telescope launch ceremony.
The telescope, installed at the bottom of Lake Baikal, has a volume of about 1 cubic meter. km, will allow Russian scientists to register astrophysical neutrinos and the direction of their arrival with record accuracy.
It was developed by the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), and Irkutsk State University. Scientists and scientific organizations from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Germany also participate in the project.
The choice of location for the telescope was not accidental. It is possible to register neutrinos with instruments only if you use a “target” (for example, the clean water of Lake Baikal): interacting with it, the neutrino creates electrically charged particles that are “visible” to technology.
Russia Launches Underwater Telescope on Lake Baikal