Accelerator facilities at the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi

The Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi, India, is providing front ranking accelerator-based research facilities to create possibilities for internationally competitive research within the Indian university system. The institute has established sophisticated accelerator systems and experimental facilities in project mode involving several universities for competitive research in the areas of Nuclear Physics, Materials Science, Atomic Physics, Radiation Biology, Radiation Physics, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Intense THz radiation. The main tool is the heavy ion accelerator facility consisting of a 15 MV Pelletron accelerator delivering ion beams of different species from stable isotopes of H to U except inert gases up to the energy 10 MeV/u, 97 MHz Niobium Quarter Wave resonator superconducting Linear Accelerator (energy of 10-82 MeV/u) and High Current Injector as an alternative of 15 UD pelletron, consisting of a 18 GHz superconducting ECR ion source, a 48.5 MHz radio-frequency quadrupole and a 97 MHz drift-tube Linac to accelerate heavy ions having A/q ≤ 6 from 8 keV/u to 1.8 MeV/u to inject into the superconducting linear accelerator. The other facilities are a 1.7 MV pelletron for Rutherford back scattering (RBS), Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, a low-energy ion beam facility based on ECR ion and SNICS sources for positive and negative ions. The institute is also coming up with a compact light source based on the principle of a Free Electron Laser to produce Tera-Hertz radiation in the frequency range of 0.15 - 3 THz.