India, Aug. 7 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The first of three units of beam catcher equipment, an integral part of the beam line (the path leading from particle generator to the experimental end-station) has reached the International Mega Science Project, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) site and waiting for its installation. These are one of the key elements of the super fragment separator (super-FRS) that produces the radioactive beams.
The equipment is required to absorb the remnants from the primary heavy-ion beams of energy 0.4-1.5 GeV/nucleon when it hits to production target for production of radioactive beams. A typical order of 5x1011 particles/spill deposit ~ 29kJ energy in the absorbing mediu...