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India to contribute $250 mn for LHC research

PTI Nov 26, 2001, 09.16pm IST

jaipur: india will contribute about $250 million in terms of indigenously built hardware components and equipment to an international project on "large hadron collider" (lhc) to study the properties of origin of universe at geneva, member of the atomic energy commission, raja ramanna, said on monday. "the lhc project, to study the quark glucon plasma (qgp)- based theory on the beginning of the universe, would probably be operational by the year 2006 at the european council for nuclear research (cern) at geneva," ramanna said after inaugurating the fourth international conference on physics and astrophysics here. the lhc is being built at a cost of $2 billion by scientists with an aim to fully understand the properties of the qgp and to recreate the big bang, he said. it is generally believed that the universe began with a big bang about 1500 million years ago and that it remained, for the subsequent few microseconds, in the form of quark glucon plasma, he added. nearly 800 scientists from 27 countries, including 70 indians, have created a pool of manpower and technology to explore mysteries of universe, ramanna said. about 200 scientists, including 20 foreigners, are participating in the five-day-conference aimed at preparing aplan to find mysteries of universe.