Electronics Corporation of India Ltd is all set to flag off its first consignment of ultra stable power converters to Germany on July 9 for the International Science Program called Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR).

KN Vyas, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), will flag off these critical high technology equipment at ECIL, Hyderabad.

FAIR is an international science centre coming up at Darmstadt near Frankfurt, Germany, for studying the building blocks of matter and the evolution of the universe.

This is a highly sophisticated accelerator complex, which will provide high-energy, precisely-tailored beams of antiprotons and many kinds of ions at unprecedented quality and intensities.

These charged particle beams will then be accelerated and employed to create new exotic particles in a series of parallel experimental programmes.

The centre is being built through international collaboration and India is a major partner along with China, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, among others.

India is contributing around €36 million (₹270 crore) in the form of high technology equipment for the programme and supply detectors, vacuum chambers, magnets and power converters.

ECIL, Hyderabad, is involved in design, manufacture and supply of around 600 converters costing around €9 million (₹67 crore) comprising 30 types for the programme.

The Research and Development organisations of Department of Atomic Energy like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, are providing technical support to ECIL for these power converters.

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