- PIP-II is the first particle accelerator on U.S. soil (at Fermilab) to be built with significant contributions from international partners.
- Institutions from India, France, Italy, Poland and UK are part of collaboration. India will contribute $140 million worth components.
- It will power the world’s most high-energy neutrino beam to the underconstruction Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF).
- Particle accelerators propel charged particles (Protons, Atomic Nuclei, Electrons etc.) at high speeds, close to the speed of light.
- Accelerators feature four principal components – Source for producing particles, Composite device to speed them up, Metallic tubes in vacuum to allow free movement and Electromagnets to steer the beam particles.
- Accelerators feature four principal components – Source for producing particles, Composite device to speed them up, Metallic tubes in vacuum to allow free movement and Electromagnets to steer the beam particles.
Significance of Particle Accelerators:
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- Some Large Particle Accelerators:
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Most powerful accelerator, located at CERN in Geneva. Significant achievements - discovery of Higgs Boson, previously unknown hadrons etc.
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), USA: Longest linear particle accelerator in the world. Significant achievements - discovery of quark and tau leptons.
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF): Located in Grenoble, France, and is home to most intense hard x-ray source in the world.