Accelerator Physics

Prof. Amalendu Sharma graduated from the BARC Training School, RRCAT, Indore in 2001. He has worked on the relaxed optics for ease commissioning of 2.5 GeV Indus-2 synchrotron radiation source at RRCAT and participated in commissioning exercises of Indus-2. Dr Sharma also carried out studies on the inclusion of harmonic sextupole magnets in Indus-2 to improve the beam lifetime for low emittance, high brightness optics. He was the convenor of the team responsible to increase the beam current at in Indus-2 and shaping it in the routine stable operation mode. He also participated in the optics design of an electron beam transport line to compress the bunch length for CTF3 project at CERN under the DAE-CERN collaboration and on this work, he obtained his PhD, in 2014 by HBNI. Presently, Dr Amalendu Sharma is leading the beam dynamics activities for designing the 1 GeV Proton Accumulator Ring of Indian Facility for Spallation Research. He is also contributing to the optics design of energy filtering and beam delivery system of radiation processing facility development at RRCAT, Indore. Dr Amalendu Sharma has been teaching Accelerator Physics in BARC Training School at RRCAT, Indore for the last 14 years. He also took classes in the Orientation Course on Accelerator and Laser (OCAL) in RRCAT, in which M.Sc and B.Tech students participated. Dr Sharma also delivered lectures in the course on Accelerator Science and Technology, conducted by IUAC. New Delhi.

Prof. Rajni Pande graduated from the 45th batch of BARC Training School at RRCAT, Indore in 2002. She obtained her PhD from Homi Bhabha National Institute in 2014 in accelerator physics. She has been teaching Accelerator Physics at BARC Training School for the past 12 years. She has also taught accelerator physics at DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai. She has been working on the design and development of high intensity proton accelerators at BARC. Her current research interests are design of accelerating structures and beam dynamics in high intensity LINACS & study of non-linear effects in high intensity particle accelerators. She co-authored several papers in refereed journals.

Prof. Pitamber Singh graduated from 19th batch of BARC Training School in 1976. He was formerly the Head, Ion Accelerator Development Division, BARC. He is a nuclear physicist and made pioneering contributions in design and development of accelerators. He worked at Max Planck Institute fur Kernphysik (MPI), Heidelberg as a post-doctoral fellow during 1985-86. He has more than 400 publications including 85 papers in reputed international journals. Some of his noteworthy contributions are as follows : Dr. Singh made very important contributions to the design and development of a 2 Million Volt Tandem Accelerator and a 6 Million Volt Folded Tandem Ion Accelerator (FOTIA) at BARC For outstanding contributions to the indigenous development of accelerators, Dr Singh was conferred the DAE’s Technical Excellence Award in the year 2000. Dr Singh steered a project to develop a 1 GeV, 30 mA proton accelerator for the Indian ADS program to use Thorium in the nuclear fuel cycle. He has also contributed to the India-Fermilab (USA) collaboration for development of high intensity accelerators and was a key member of the Technical Board at the Fermilab for Project-X/PIP-II and Indian Technical Coordinator for the Indian Institutes Fermilab Collaboration (IIFC). In recognition of his excellent contributions to the development of accelerators and nuclear reaction studies, Dr. Singh was awarded INS High Technology Award in 2013. He has also received several Group Achievement Awards in DAE. Dr. Singh has also made very important contribution in the field of nuclear physics. As a Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Dr Singh had been actively involved in teaching and guiding PhD students.