Target Laboratory
This laboratory is one of the user support laboratories which provides facilities and necessary help to the user community for the preparation of thin films and targets required to perform experiments using the Pelletron, in the areas of Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, and Materials Science. More than 100 thin films and targets are prepared per year in this laboratory. Along with the preparation of targets, the laboratory also prepares 5 microgram/cm 2 thick, free-standing carbon foils used as a stripper for the 15UD Pelletron accelerator. Approximately 600-800 stripper foils are used in the Pelletron in a year...
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Detector Laboratory at Inter-University Accelerator Centre provides infrastructure & support for the development of radiation detectors for various research experiments. Considering the importance of heavy-ion nuclear reaction research at IUAC, special attention has been made to the development of low-energy heavy-ion detectors. These include low-pressure multiwire proportional chambers, ionization detectors, and silicon strip detectors. The laboratory is involved in research & development of multi-channel readout electronics for strip detectors, fast timing pre-amplifiers, and pulse shaping amplifiers...
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A heavy-ion Rf-superconducting LINAC booster project for the 15UD Pelletron accelerator is near completion at Nuclear Science Centre. The acceleration would be performed with several superconducting quarter-wave resonators made of niobium which has a critical temperature of 9.2K. Therefore, the resonators have to be cooled below their critical temperature to make operational, hence requiring liquid helium [4.2K] and associated cryogenic system. The Superconducting Linac consists of one Buncher cryostat, three Linac cryostats, and a Rebuncher cryostat. Liquid Helium is produced by the LHe plant and transfers the liquid to the cryostats through the distribution line...
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High Vacuum Laboratory is primarily responsible for maintaining the vacuum, vacuum systems, and diagnostic devices in the beamlines and experimental facilities. There are about 600 instruments (pumps, gauges, valves, diagnostic BPM, Faraday cups, device controllers, etc.) installed and running in different places. Faulty instruments are replaced with available spares to reduce downtime.
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Beam Transport System (BTS) Group is responsible for the design, fabrication, installation, and maintenance of magnet power supplies and other BTS-associated instruments. To achieve a high uptime of BTS, the group executes “Yearly Scheduled Preventive Maintenance” (YSPM) of BTS instruments of all the accelerator facilities at IUAC. Additionally, the BTS group also performs preventive maintenance and repair of detector bias high voltage power supplies in use at different experimental facilities.
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Data Support Laboratory (DSL) at Inter-University Accelerator Centre provides support to users for Data Acquisition and NIM electronics set up at Data Room. The lab has got a pool of NIM and CAMAC resources that can be issued to users for setting up the experiments. Data Acquisition at NSC is based on CAMAC based standard system running on Linux OS. The system uses a low-cost homemade crate controller and PC interface card. Two DAQ stations in the data room can be used to collect data from the experimental setup of different beamlines. The system called DAS1 and DAS2 is located at two sides of the data room (room 112) where patch panels from HIRA and GPSC beamlines are terminated...
Read MoreElectronics and RF Laboratory
Nuclear Electronics, Radio Frequency Electronics, Electronics Industry Links...
Read MoreHigh Performance Computing Laboratory
LK2 is finally up, after a chiller replacement and miscellaneous troubles. SIESTA (version siesta-3.0-b) is now centrally available on k2 and a separate queue 'siesta. q' has been configured! Please contact us for access to it. Please use your directory in the /mnt/oss partition to store jobs and job-related data. Please don't store excess data in your home directory in /export....
Read MoreTeaching Laboratory
ExpEYES is from the PHOENIX project of Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. It is a hardware & software framework for developing science experiments, demonstrations, and projects without getting into the details of electronics or computer programming. It converts your PC into a science laboratory. PHOENIX (Physics with Home-made Equipment and Innovative Experiments) project was started, in 2005 as a part of IUAC's outreach program, with the objectives of developing affordable laboratory equipment and training teachers...
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The library has got the necessary infrastructure and facilities to meet the diversified information requirements of scientists, engineers, research scholars, and students of IUAC and its user community from various universities and institutions all over the country. The major resources of the library include books, journals, reports, conference proceedings, manuals, and Ph. D. thesis. The library has a computerized book catalog and it can be searched through the library intranet. The library is open round the clock, 7 days a week throughout the year. This unique facility helps...
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Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), a premier R&D institute under the University Grant Commission (UGC), Government of India, is working in the areas of development and applications of IUAC...
Read MoreSRF
The prototype quarter-wave resonator (QWR) for the IUAC-Superconducting Linac (SC Linac) was designed and developed in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA...
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