Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research(FAIR)

Electronics Corporation of India shipped two ultra stable power converters to Germany for use in Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research.

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The power converters will in turn help scientists at the facility, commonly referred by its acronym FAIR, produce high energy precision beams of subatomic particles and bend them besides accelerating them to speeds nearing that of light for use in various particle physics experiments.

• ECIL has been tasked with fabricating 600 power converters.
• ECIL will deliver rest of the converters by 2019. 

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research(FAIR):

• It is an international science programme aimed at unravelling the mysteries of universe.
• FAIR is multi-national project with 10 partner countries including India which is pledged 36 million euro or around Rs, 270 crore worth of equipment in the 1.5 billion euro project. 
• The project is expected to unravel deepest mysteries of the universe including determining how interactions between subatomic particles give mass to the universe.
• The country will also be providing superconducting magnets, vacuum chambers, which will be the biggest ever made.