TRIDENT: The Biggest Neutrino Detector In China's Artificial World

Ket. photo: China's TRIDENT test underwater (photo: dock. Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

JAKARTA - China is currently building the Tropical Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT). Developed by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, TRIDENT was built in the South China Sea.

The telescope for this neutrino detector has high sensitivity and is expected to be able to answer the mystery of my heart and its origins. Quoting from Universetoday, Neutrino was first discovered in the early 20th century.

Initially, neutrinos were thought to be massless and had no charge. These elementary particles are known to only interact through gravity and weak nuclear forces.

Most neutrinos come from the sun. They shower the center of the earth with 65 billion particles every second. They also have other sources such as supernovae, nuclear reactors, and others.

China's focus on developing the TRIDENT observatory is the study of cosmological neutrinos created during cosmic rays regarding atoms. TRIDENT itself will be placed in deep and abandoned mines, into the deepest oceans, and deep within the ices of Space.

The TRIDENT neutrino observatory will reportedly consist of 1,211 strings containing 20 hDOM each vertically separated 30 meters and about 2,800 to 3,400 below sea level.

TRIDENT can detect neutrinos with volume. If the volume of water gets higher, rare neutrino interactions will be increasingly detected. TRIDENT itself becomes the largest neutrino detector with a volume of 7.5 cubic kilometers.