The basic objective of Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) is to provide front ranking accelerator based research facilities to create possibilities for internationally competitive research within the university system. While the phase I of IUAC was to commission a tandem accelerator to provide accelerated ion beams over a wide mass region, the maximum energy of ions from the Pelletron (~ 200-250 MeV) limits the research program for both nuclear physics and materials science. A superconducting LINAC booster was planned in early 90s for future augmentation of the Pelletron. The goal of the phase II of IUAC is to optimize the acceleration facilities in a wide mass region around 60 - 80 to obtain energies above the Coulomb barrier as demanded by the Physics requirements to remain in the forefront of research. For gaining experience in the operation of high charge state positive ions sources, a unique Low Energy Ion Beam Facility (LEIBF) has been developed at IUAC.

The research activities at the Centre can be grouped in the areas of Nuclear reactions near Coulomb barrier, High spin spectroscopy, Spectroscopy of highly charged ions, Interaction of swift heavy ions with materials, Materials characterization, Materials Modification, Device fabrication, Radiation Biology, Accelerator Mass spectroscopy etc.   ....more

Indian National Gamma Array (INGA) is an array of Compton-supressed Clover detectors with nearly 4π geometric coverage. A series of test experiments were conducted for checking the beam optics for the INGA beamline.   ....more

Hybrid Recoil Mass Analyzer (HYRA), which is a unique combination of recoil mass spectrometer (RMS) and gas-filled separator (GFS) has been tested successfully.   ....more