R & D for Silicon detectors in India to probe low-x physics

Silicon detector has drawn lots of attention in high energy physics experiments to characterize particles of various types and of wide incident energy range. An indigenous effort in India started back in 2010 aiming challenging task of measuring observable for possible gluon rich physics at LHC energies at forward direction at ALICE experiment. The R&D in India has successfully executed to design, fabricate and test of segmented silicon detectors towards this goal. The development is now matured in such a stage that the radiation hard silicon detector on large size wafer can be explored. A brief account of the R&D on silicon detector in India will be presented. (author)