Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

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Recently, the first of three units of beam catcher equipment, an integral part of the beam line, has reached the International Mega Science Project, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) site. 

About Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

• It is a large multipurpose particle accelerator facility being built at Darmstadt, Germany.
• It is being developed and built in cooperation with international partners. 
• India’s contribution to this is funded jointly (50:50) by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) of Government of India.
• Bose institute, Kolkata has been designated as the Indian shareholder in the FAIR GmbH and the nodal Indian Institution for the implementation of FAIR programme in India.
• Bose institute is an autonomous R&D Institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India,
• India became one of the founding members of this initiative in 2010.

Key Facts about Beam Catcher Equipment

• It is one of the key elements of the super fragment separator (super-FRS) that produces the radioactive beams.
• It is required to absorb the remnants from the primary heavy-ion beams of energy 0.4-1.5 GeV/nucleon when it hits the production target for production of radioactive beams.
• The absorbers of the beam are housed in a vacuum chamber which will remain under vacuum level of ~10-7 mbar.
• The absorbers, made of fine-grained graphite and hyper pure copper, are subjected to motorized horizontal and vertical movements inside the chamber with a precision of mm scale. 
• It was designed by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI) in Durgapur under the supervision of Bose Institute.

Source: PIB

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