The dream North Eastern Accelerator Facility: R & D efforts by CUPAC NE Collaboration

The NE (North East) region of the country, often called as seven sisters, has recently got one more sister: Sikkim and now we are 8 states all together. We all combined together to form CUPAC (Cotton University Particle Accelerator Centre)-NE collaboration. The primary mission of the collaboration is to realize an accelerator facility in the region to educate our young students and faculties in accelerator science & technology and perform world class research using accelerators. If funded, the CUPAC-NE accelerator will be unique in the nation and open up several new domains of research in which the nation is not globally competitive. The collaboration had identified several R & D projects in technologies critical to the accelerator and experimental system. Students from the NE region will develop the entire instrumentation, make it operational and perform research at national laboratories. Students are also given necessary theoretical foundations to comprehend these advanced technologies