International Astronomical Union names a star after Indian Woman Scientist

Published: December 18, 2019

On December 17, 2019, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a white yellow star in Sextans Constellation as “Bhibha” and its planet as “Santamasa” Highlights The star has been named Bhibha honoring Indian Woman Scientist Bhibha Choudhury who discovered subatomic particle pi-meson. Bhibha means a bright beam of light in Bengali. The name Santamasa in ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Exoplanet • International Astronomical union • Particle physics • Planet • Stars

What is the Neutrino Observatory Project?

Published: December 6, 2019

A neutrino is an electrically neutral fermion. Fermion is a particle that follows Fermi-Dirac statistics, which describes a distribution of particles over energy states in systems that consists of identical or similar particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle. In December 2017, the Union Cabinet committee on security approved the India based Neutrino Observatory Project. ..

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Department of Science and Technology • fermion • Neutrino • Neutrino observatory project • Particle physics • Rajya Sabha • Tamil Nadu • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research • Theni

Applications of Neutrinos

Published: May 21, 2018

The neutrino is a tiny elementary particle, but it is not part of the atom. They exist in nature. Neutrino has a very tiny mass, no charge and spins half. It interacts very weakly with other matter particles so weakly that every second trillions of neutrinos fall on us and pass through our bodies unnoticed. ..

Topics: Dark matter • Neutrino astronomy • Neutrino detector • Neutrinos • Particle physics • Physical sciences • Physics • Physics beyond the Standard Model • Solar neutrino • Solar neutrino problem

Baryons and Omega C-0 Particles

Published: May 19, 2018

In March 2017, five new sub-atomic particles were discovered by Large Hadron Collider scientists at CERN. These particles have been collectively called Omega C0 and have been named Oc(3000)0, Oc(3050)0, Oc(3066)0, Oc(3090)0 b Oc(3119)0 as per their masses megaelectronvolts (MeV). Omega-c-zero is a baryon. It is a particle with three quarks, containing two strange and ..

Topics: Baryons • Charm quark • Elementary particles • Hadron • Meson • Natural sciences • Nuclear physics • Particle physics • Physical sciences • Physics • Quarks • Subatomic particle

Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillation

Published: May 1, 2018

Neutrinos are one of the elementary particles, which make up the universe. They are similar to electrons except that they do not carry electric charge. As they are electrically neutral, they are not affected by the electromagnetic forces like electrons or protons. Neutrinos are only leptons with no electric nature. Other leptons, which carry electric ..

Topics: Arthur B. McDonald • Elementary particles • Leptons • Muon neutrino • Neutrino astronomy • Neutrinos • Particle physics • Physical sciences • Physics • Physics beyond the Standard Model • Solar neutrino • Solar neutrino problem

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