Facts for Prelims (FFP)
Source: Frontline
Context: China is constructing the world’s largest “ghost particle” detector, a massive underwater telescope in the South China Sea, designed to detect neutrinos, which are often referred to as “ghost particles.”
- The telescope, named “Trident,” is expected to span 7.5 cubic kilometers and be 10,000 times more sensitive than existing underwater telescopes.
- It is being built in the South China Sea to detect neutrinos, which can interact with water molecules.
The significance of detecting neutrinos lies in their mysterious behaviour and their potential role in solving scientific mysteries.
Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have very little mass and no charge, and they interact very weakly with other particles, making them challenging to detect
