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UK-India laser programme to target global challenges L


aser scientists and engineers from the UK and India will collaborate


under a new programme to develop laser technologies for economic and societal impact.


Funded by UK Research and


Innovation (UKRI), with the UK lead being the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Central Laser Facility (CLF), the £4m Extreme Photonics Innovation Centre (EPIC) will be housed in laboratories set up at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Hyderabad. The joint UK and India scheme will use particle and x-ray beams with the aim of revolutionising a range of areas of healthcare, such as high- resolution imaging, therapeutic and biomedical applications to tackle health problems. The funding for the projects


will be matched by international collaborators from countries including India, China, the USA and Japan. It brings the total


and UK,’ Professor Vadapalli Chandrasekhar, centre director, TIFR Hyderabad said of the new collaboration. EPIC’s UK lead, Dr Rajeev


Pattathil, said experiments using CLF’s existing high power laser systems had


already demonstrated the potential application of the new accelerators in industry, engineering, science, medicine, and advanced materials. ‘Working with India on


developing further the technologies that transform


novel accelerators to real-world applications will be mutually beneficial, as India aspires to have a strong research programme in this area via the recently announced expansion of the TIFR centre in Hyderabad that will house EPIC.’


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UK investment in international scientific collaborations to more than £2bn. ‘These new accelerators can


deliver very bright particle and x-ray beams that could be used for high-resolution industrial and biomedical imaging, and for therapeutic applications,’ said CLF director Professor John Collier. ‘TIFR has a long tradition of


research on lasers and plans to initiate new activities based on intense petawatt lasers at its Hyderabad campus. With this background, TIFR is collaborating with the CLF team to develop state-of-the- art technologies that will be of great benefit to both India


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MCA module is a portable Multi-Channel Analyser especially designed for spectroscopy applications using photomultipliers. The module uses powerful digital signal processing with USB control and comes with three input channels.


The MCA module can be used to analyse single photo-electron response of photomultipliers, gamma ray spectroscopy applications with NaI(Tl) and plastic scintillation detectors.


The analyser comes with open source windows application software which allows rapid integration into user’s radiation detection systems.


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