FAIR Council meeting in Kolkata: A historic step towards creating milestone

The 42nd meeting of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) Council was hosted in Kolkata, India on 3-4 December 2024.

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The meeting was held at the Unified Academic Campus of Bose Institute, making it the council's first meeting to be held outside the FAIR site in Germany. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), an international particle accelerator facility, is being constructed in Darmstadt, Germany at a cost of about 2.6 billion euros. The multipurpose facility will be responsible for carrying out research in high energy physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and plasma and applications including space science and cancer therapy.

The FAIR facility is being built with the aim to answer questions including, how elements heavier than lithium are created in stars and what is the nature of the matter inside the core of neutron stars. It will also focus on what are the effects on the tissues of astronauts from the radiation received from space and how accelerated particles can be used to treat malignancy in the brain, lungs and other such sensitive organs more effectively.