Speaker
Description
Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) is an autonomous centre of the University Grants
Commission (UGC), Government of India, providing advanced facilities to the user community for
carrying out accelerator-based research in basic sciences for more than three decades. Experimental
nuclear physics, both nuclear reaction dynamics and nuclear structure, has been a core area of
research since the inception of IUAC. Several state-of-the-art experimental facilities, namely, two
recoil separators (HIRA and HYRA), an array of neutron detectors (NAND), a large scattering chamber
(GPSC) and a large array of HPGe Clover detectors (INGA) etc. are available at IUAC to facilitate
research by the user community. An overview of the facilities and research activities will be
presented with an emphasis on the physics programme pursued with the two recoil separators at
IUAC.
