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India to follow $6 bn cosmic path into 2020
Srinivas Laxman I TNN
Mumbai: The nearly 40-yearold TIFR at Colaba, the cradle of Indias space and nuclear programmes along with other scientific institutions in the country, is expected to become part of a nearly $6 billion world-class global scientific programme, which will further probe what the universe is made of and provide exciting new insights into how it works.
In all probability, this project focusing on the critical area of particle physics, will take off in 2020.
At a media briefing on Tuesday, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), said India would be included in the prestigious international scientific project called the International Linear Collider (ILC), which will complement the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva.
About 200 Indian scientists are attached to the LHC project and the TIFR group as part of a collaboration in the field of detector instruments.
I was in Mumbai to attend a meeting of the Funding Agencies of the Large Colliders (FALC) and strengthen collaboration between India and these international facilities. I also met the chairman of the atomic energy commission, S Banerjee, and it was a very positive meeting, he said.
About the ILC, Heuer emphasised that it would be what he called a precision machine and would be truly global, receiving inputs from different nations. The new facility, whose location is yet to be determined, would provide the international scientific community with a new cosmic doorway to explore energy regimes that will be beyond the reach of todays accelerators.
The ILC would consist of two linear accelerators that face each other. The colliders would hurl about 10 billion electrons and their anti-particles towards each other at the speed of light. Stretching approximately 31 km in length, the beams will collide 14,000 times every second at extremely high energies.
About the LHC, he said that it started functioning on September 10, 2008. Unfortunately a serious fault developed damaging a number of superconducting magnets. It was restarted in November 2009 but was closed again for Christmas and New Year.
The LHC will resume operations next month with seven TeV unit in energy, which will be a high intensity collision. Over a period of time, it will be scaled up to 14 TeV.
According to Banerjee, there were four big experiments in the LHC and India was contributing to two of them. Indian scientists helped in the brain-work and played a major role in restoring the collider. India will also help in analysing data, he said.
The country will participate in LHC via two experiments. One Indian team is connected with a CMS experiment with the TIFR as the nodal agency.
The other team is involved in the Alice experiment with the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata as the nodal agencies.
Srinivas Laxman I TNN
Mumbai: The nearly 40-yearold TIFR at Colaba, the cradle of Indias space and nuclear programmes along with other scientific institutions in the country, is expected to become part of a nearly $6 billion world-class global scientific programme, which will further probe what the universe is made of and provide exciting new insights into how it works.
In all probability, this project focusing on the critical area of particle physics, will take off in 2020.
At a media briefing on Tuesday, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), said India would be included in the prestigious international scientific project called the International Linear Collider (ILC), which will complement the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva.
About 200 Indian scientists are attached to the LHC project and the TIFR group as part of a collaboration in the field of detector instruments.
I was in Mumbai to attend a meeting of the Funding Agencies of the Large Colliders (FALC) and strengthen collaboration between India and these international facilities. I also met the chairman of the atomic energy commission, S Banerjee, and it was a very positive meeting, he said.
About the ILC, Heuer emphasised that it would be what he called a precision machine and would be truly global, receiving inputs from different nations. The new facility, whose location is yet to be determined, would provide the international scientific community with a new cosmic doorway to explore energy regimes that will be beyond the reach of todays accelerators.
The ILC would consist of two linear accelerators that face each other. The colliders would hurl about 10 billion electrons and their anti-particles towards each other at the speed of light. Stretching approximately 31 km in length, the beams will collide 14,000 times every second at extremely high energies.
About the LHC, he said that it started functioning on September 10, 2008. Unfortunately a serious fault developed damaging a number of superconducting magnets. It was restarted in November 2009 but was closed again for Christmas and New Year.
The LHC will resume operations next month with seven TeV unit in energy, which will be a high intensity collision. Over a period of time, it will be scaled up to 14 TeV.
According to Banerjee, there were four big experiments in the LHC and India was contributing to two of them. Indian scientists helped in the brain-work and played a major role in restoring the collider. India will also help in analysing data, he said.
The country will participate in LHC via two experiments. One Indian team is connected with a CMS experiment with the TIFR as the nodal agency.
The other team is involved in the Alice experiment with the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata as the nodal agencies.
