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The second India-KEK collaboration meeting held in India

February 16, 2012

On February 8 and 9, the second India-KEK collaboration meeting was held at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India. Scientists from Indian institutes and KEK gathered and conducted four sub-group sessions to discuss the details of collaboration activities under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Science and Technology between the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, and KEK. This MOU was signed on January 23, 2012.

Participants agree to work together to explore possibilities for cooperation and collaboration which are mutually beneficial, in the fields of high-energy physics including the Belle II experiment at KEK, detector R&D, synchrotron science, and accelerator science,.

KEK and Indian institutes have already been involved in collaborative activities in many projects such as Belle and its successor experiment Belle II at KEK; India’s synchrotron radiation source, Indus-2; and Indian beamline at the KEK Photon Factory (PF) for exclusive use by Indian scientists.

At the high-energy physics session, participants acknowledged the importance of collaboration with Indian physicists on the success of Belle II. The participants discussed and identified the collaboration for the development of the silicon vertex detector, computing system, and physics analysis.

At the detector session, participants tried to identify collaboration items. Detector R&D has a high potential to facilitate research activities. Indian researchers are particularly interested in this research area.

At the synchrotron session, participants agreed to maintain a strong relationship to commission the Indian beamline at the PF. KEK specialists will also have the opportunity to offer comments to support beamline designs in the Indus-2 project at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore.

At the accelerator session, each Indian institute reported on its accelerator-based research activities and discussed the details to identify the potential areas of collaborative work/R&D support. Injector linac at Indus-2 is considered to be a potential collaboration.