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Moorthymore-inThe mini-Iron Calorimeter (mini-ICAL) detector, a prototype of the ICAL detector to come up at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in Theni district, has been successfully set up at the Inter Institutional Centre for High Energy Physics’ (IICHEP) transit campus here. Though it was a prototype of the ICAL, this detector would only be detecting muons and not neutrinos, mainly owing to presence of cosmic ray background. In case of ICAL, the neutrino will interact with the magnetised iron to produce electrically-charged muon, which can be detected and studied. The mini-ICAL detector has 10 layers of glass Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC), which act as sensors and are stacked in between 11 iron plates of 4 metre x 4 metre size. The template: Scientists monitoring the reading from the mini-Iron Calorimeter (seen in the background), a prototype of the ICAL to come up at India-based Neutrino Observatory in Theni district, on the project’s transit campus in Madurai on Monday..