Third generation Synchrotron project on anvil

The country will have a third generation Synchrotron facility at a cost of Rs 6000 crore built over the next decade. The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics will be the leading body in the project.

Over the last two days,the representatives of various premier research institutes in the country and the directors of four synchrotron wings from Japan,USA,Germany and European Union,deliberated about the project at the institute campus in Kolkata. Synchrotron is a type of cyclic particular accelerator in which the magnetic field and the electric field are carefully synchronised with the travelling particle beam. The third generation Synchrotron will have X-ray beams of 50 nanometer and energy of 150 to 200 Kilo Electron Volts,said Milan K Sanyal,the Director, SINP. The capacity building for the project will start in three to four months.

The project will require about 150 acres of land and 350 scientists. “I would like the Synchrotron facility to be set up in Kolkata,but there will be a committee looking after this,” he said. Variable Electron and Cyclotron Centre,BARC,TIFR and Raja Rammana Centre for Advanced Technology will collaborate in the project.