The unique Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, will be launched on March 13 at Lake Baikal, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science said.
The opening ceremony of the telescope will be attended by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov, Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Grigory Trubnikov, Governor of the Irkutsk Region Igor Kobzev.
The device itself was installed at a distance of 3.5 km from the coast at a depth of 750-1300 meters in the southern basin of Lake Baikal.
Thus, Baikal-GVD is designed to register and study ultrahigh-energy neutrino fluxes arriving from space, from the bowels of nascent or dying galaxies and various exotic stellar objects. These particles carry information about what happened in the Universe billions of years ago.