World's largest magnet in design at BARC

[Hope4btr]

MUMBAI: Unknown to many, the world's largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tonnes and slated to be several times bigger than the one at the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN, Geneva, is being designed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

The massive magnet will play a major role in the Rs 1,500-crore India-based Neutrino Observatory coming up 4,300 feet below a cave in a mountain not far from Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

Speaking to TOI on Monday, head of BARC's nuclear physics division Vivek Datar said that in terms of sheer dimensions the magnet being designed at the Trombay centre will be the largest in the world. "It will be iron-based, weighing 50,000 tonnes while the weight of the one at CERN ranges between 4,000 and 5,000 tonnes,'' he said. Other sources have, however, indicated that its weight is 12,500 tonnes.

Datar explained that the current plan envisages the magnet consisting of three modules. Work on the en-gineering model is expected to be completed in about three years. "We plan to do this near Madurai University,'' he said.

A formal green signal from the atomic energy commission is awaited.

Source : World's largest magnet in design at BARC- TOI

 

[KRAIT]

May be we are developing it to attract all the Iron from ocean.

@topic

This Neutrino Observatory is quite important for India. We need these advance level research.

 

[scorpionx]

India-based Neutrino Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Off topic: did it influenced the director of "2012"?

 

[Imran Khan]

kya karo gay is se ? hamary missile aluminum ke bany hain

 

[kṣamā]

jahan dekho apne missile aur atum bumb leke pahunch jate hai !!! are bhai in sab se age aur upar bhi science tarakki kar chuki hai aur age bhi kare gi

 

[Pandora]

Congrats. Interesting development.