{"id":117919,"date":"2026-08-08T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=117919"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:45:27","slug":"facility-for-antiproton-and-ion-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/facility-for-antiproton-and-ion-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a large <\/span><b>multipurpose particle accelerator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> facility <\/span><b>being built at Darmstadt, Germany.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is being developed and built in <\/span><b>cooperation with international partners.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s contribution to this is funded jointly (50:50) by the <\/span><b>Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Atomic Energy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (DAE) of Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bose institute, Kolkata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been <\/span><b>designated as the Indian shareholder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the FAIR GmbH and the <\/span><b>nodal Indian Institution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the <\/span><b>implementation of FAIR programme in India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bose institute is an <\/span><b>autonomous R&amp;D Institute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the Department of Science &amp; Technology, Ministry of Science &amp; Technology, Government of India,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>India became<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the <\/span><b>founding members<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of this initiative <\/span><b>in 2010<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Beam Catcher Equipment<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the key <\/span><b>elements of the super fragment separator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (super-FRS) that produces the <\/span><b>radioactive beams.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is required to absorb the <\/span><b>remnants from the primary heavy-ion beams of energy 0.4-1.5<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> GeV\/nucleon when it hits the production <\/span><b>target for production of radioactive beams.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The absorbers of the beam are <\/span><b>housed in a vacuum chamber<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which will remain under vacuum level of ~10-7 mbar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The absorbers, made of <\/span><b>fine-grained graphite and hyper pure copper,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are subjected to motorized horizontal and vertical movements inside the chamber with a precision of mm scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designed by the <\/span><b>Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-CMERI) in Durgapur under the supervision of Bose Institute.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2296099&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facility for Antiproton and Ion Research is a large multipurpose particle accelerator facility being built at Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9380],"class_list":["post-117919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-facility-for-antiproton-and-ion-research","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118005,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117919\/revisions\/118005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}