Click to play videoNew Delhi: While the Indo-US civil nuclear deal has hogged headlines, its nuclear physicists working on the Big Bang have stayed out of the limelight. For the past 14 years, India has helped set up the biggest experiment in history at a cost of more than Rs 160 crore.
The Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology in Indore made most of the 27-km long tunnel which uses magnets to circulate speeding protons around its loop in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in Calcutta designed and manufactured special sensors to detect among other things the God Particle or the Higgs Boson - that gives all matter - mass.
Besides these institutes, data from the experiment will be analysed in real time at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, IIT-B, and the Universities of Delhi, Punjab, Jammu, Rajasthan and Aligarh.
Computer results will be streamed back to Geneva in real time.
(With Gokul Nanda, Raksha Shetty and Jaimon Joseph)
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