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| Jammu’s hour of glory at world’s most curious science test | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Sep 10
As the entire world remained hooked to the television screens for the day to see decoding the makeup of universe, there was a Jammu connection to the world’s most expensive and most controversial experiment of Physics –indeed a moment of honour for the City of temples as the University of Jammu is one of the participants to largest particle collider test.
Jammu University too has played an important role in today’s experiment. Talking to EARLY TIMES, JU’s Head of the Department of Physics Prof Naresh Padha said that a team of Jammu University comprising more than 20 researchers was largest of all the groups working on the experiment.
According to him Jammu University has worked on two aspects, first one is on Detector fabrication and other one is Software development. He also informed that members of Jammu University along with with VECC/SINP (Kolkata) as the nodal institutions and IOP, IITB, Jammu, Rajasthan, Aligarh and Punjab universities worked in the ALICE experiment which costs around about 1 crore 92 lakh. The main object of this project is creation of molecules.
The second project named Grid computing which a cost about 90lakh is for the study of the computers globally. For this Eminent Scientist team had visited Jammu University earlier to participate in the Grid Computing Technology workshop.
In the first Project (ALICE), Jammu University team has worked under the supervision of Prof. Lalit Mangotra. In this project a small molecule has been created which then has been transferred to Kolkata for assembly. Prof. Anju Bhasin along with her other companion Er. Anik Gupta worked on the Project Grid Computing. Prof. Bhasin has been working on this project in Berhingum University for the last 2 years. The second project will interpreted all the data analysis in the on going experiment. In these project Er. Anik has handled all the technology work in this project.
The other members of the team consisted of Prof. SK Badyal, DR. PB .KS Bawa, Dr. Sanjeev Singh Sambyal and Er. Sanjay Mahajan.
It may be noted here that the the Indian flag flew high when the world's largest particle collider successfully fired a beam of protons all the way around a 27-km tunnel on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe and study its formation.
Around 200 of the 2,000 scientists involved in the ten billion dollar multi-nation 'mother of all experiments' are of Indian origin.
India has made major scientific and technological contribution to this new atom smasher also called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), according to scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). LHC is expected to answer several facts of fundamental nature of the universe that remains a mystery after the World's costliest experiment.
Indian laboratories, led by Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) at Indore, have contributed substantially towards construction of the accelerator (LHC) itself, with many components being fabricated by Indian industry and supplied to CERN, Prof Atul Gurtu, senior scientist, department of high energy physics, TIFR told PTI.
In the scientific side, two Indian teams are involved in different experiments. They included a scientist couple -- Sudhir Raniwala and his wife Rashmi-- from Jaipur. They are Associate Professors.
Sudhir Ranawala allayed safety fears about the high-speed collisions in the tunnel. "Cosmic rays in the universe send particles with much greater energies than those being achieved in the lab. So there is nothing to worry about," he said.
Sudhir Raniwala said the 'Big Bang' experiment is a great technological advance. "No matter what the results are, either it confirms certain things that we believe today or it refutes certain things that we believe today."
"It is an intellectual stimulation that goes on that we try to unravel what the nature had unfolded for us," he said.
Prof Raghav Verma of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, representing Indian scientists, has carried an Indian flag, IIT sources said.
Asked about the role of Indian scientists, Gurtu said they have been active in this field and had collaborations with their counterparts at CERN and Fermilab.
However, it is for the first time that a concerted, coordinated and comprehensive contribution has been made by India towards such a huge international scientific program, he said.
One Indian team is participating in the CMS experiment with TIFR as the nodal institution and includes scientists from BARC, Delhi, Punjab and Vishwa Bharati universities.
The other team is in the ALICE experiment with VECC/SINP (Kolkata) as the nodal institutions and IOP, IITB, Jammu, Rajasthan, Aligarh and Punjab universities.
Gurtu said the scientific goals are truly stupendous, ranging from understanding the microcosm of the sub-nuclear world to attempting to answer the question what was the universe like at the very beginning of time, a few moments after the big bang.
The entire system in the 27-km-long Large Hadron Collider comprising 1,232 cryo-magnets,each weighing about 32 tones, is sitting on precision motion positioning systems developed among other places at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced technology(RRCAT), Indore. By Electronics Corp of India. |
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