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Lecture for Physics

Neutrinos, "the most tiny quantity of reality ever imagined by a human being", as quoted by its co-discoverer Fedrik Reines, never ceased to puzzle physicists. Wolfgang Pauli introduced neutrino in 1930 as a desperate remedy to save the "Law of Conservation of Energy". It then took twenty seven long years to find the first experimental evidence for its existence. The reason for this long wait is its extreme reluctance to interact with matter. Over the last several decades, dedicated neutrino experiments around the globe have looked for neutrinos from the sun, from outer space, from interior of the earth and from man made activities. These experiments have answered many of the questions related to particle physics, astrophysics and even geophysics.

In this talk the speaker will describe few of these experiments and their findings. He will also discuss the INO experiment and its physics

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