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BNO is in Baksan Gorge at the Northern Caucasus (Kabarda-Balkar Republic)
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Research directions
- The study of inner structure and evolution of the Sun, stars, the galactic nucleus
and other objects of the Universe by registration of their neutrino emission.
- The search of new particles and super rare processes predicted by modern theories
of elementary particles at a sensitivity level inaccessible by other methods.
- The study of high energy cosmic rays, gamma-ray astronomy.
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BNO instruments:
- The Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) of volume 3000 cubic centimeters at a depth of more 300 m.
- The mountainous plant ANDYRCHI to register wide air showers located over BUST on the area 5*104 square metres.
- The complex of surface plants KOVER including a large muon detector, a scintillation telescope and a neutrino monitor
meant for studying the hard component of cosmic rays and wide air showers.
- The undergound laboratory of the Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope (GGNT) for detecting solar neutrinos with a target
of 60 tons of metallic gallium located at a distance of 3.5 km from entrance to the tunnel.
Besides, there are low-background laboratories at the depths 100, 600 and 4800 meters deep into mountain..
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The gallery of the Underground Scintillation Telescope
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The Underground Scintillation Telescope
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Reactors of the BNO Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope
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