3. What will be the detector that will be housed at INO?

The detector housed in the INO underground laboratory initially will be a magnetised iron calorimeter detector (ICAL). It is a static device without moving parts. Just as a telescope observes the sky through visible light, the ICAL will observe the sky through neutrinos.

Charged particles produced in neutrino interactions can be detected by means of an iron calorimeter (ICAL) detector which will be constructed at INO. Iron layers will be sandwiched with the active detector material that will detect whenever a charged particle passes through it.