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{{Infobox organization<br />
| name = Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology<br />
| image = Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology.svg<br />
| established = 1986<br />
| abbreviation = RRCAT<br />
| formation = {{Start date|df=yes|1984|02|19}}<br />
| purpose = [[Physics]]<br />
| headquarters = [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
| location = [[India]]<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|22.667|75.809|display=inline,title}}<br />
| parent_organisation = [[Department of Atomic Energy]]<br />
| website = {{URL|http://www.rrcat.gov.in}}<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology''' is a unit of [[Department of Atomic Energy (India)|Department of Atomic Energy]], Government of [[India]], engaged in [[R&D]] in non-[[nuclear engineering|nuclear]] front-line research areas of [[lasers]], [[particle accelerators]] and related technologies.<ref name=rrcat-home>{{cite web|url=http://www.cat.gov.in/|title=Home|publisher=Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology|access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
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On 19 February 1984 the then President of India, [[Zail Singh|Gyani Zail Singh]], laid the foundation stone of the centre. Construction of laboratories and houses began in May 1984. In June 1986, the first batch of scientists from [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]] (BARC), Mumbai, moved to RRCAT and scientific activities were started. Since then, the centre has rapidly grown into a premier institute for research and development in lasers, accelerators and their applications. Originally called the Centre for Advanced Technology, it was renamed by the Indian Prime Minister in December 2005 as Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, after noted Indian physicist [[Raja Ramanna]].<ref name=rrcat-history>{{cite web|url=http://www.cat.gov.in/organization/cat/index.html|title=History|publisher=Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology|access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref><br />
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==Location==<br />
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The Centre is situated at the south-western end of the [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]. It is about 11&nbsp;km from the Indore Railway station as well as the Indore airport. The nearest residential locality is Rajendra Nagar.<ref name=rrcat-location>{{cite web|url=http://www.cat.gov.in/organization/cat/location.html|title=Location|publisher=Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology|access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref><br />
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==Research activities==<br />
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RRCAT has developed two synchrotron radiation sources called "Indus": Indus-1 is a 450 MeV electron storage ring, whereas Indus-2 is a booster cum storage ring that can accelerate electrons from an injection energy of 550 MeV to 2.5 GeV. RRCAT also provides training to young scientists at BARC Training School located in its campus who later joined several DAE units like BARC Mumbai, IGCAR Kalpakkam, VECC Kolkata and RRCAT as Scientific Officers. It also provides a strong basis of front line research for external Ph. D. scholar in the related fields.<br />
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RRCAT has also been actively involved in providing scientific and material assistance to the [[CERN]] sponsored<br />
[[Large Hadron Collider]].<ref name="TOI">{{cite news|last=Das|first=Kumud|title=CERN approves the key role played by Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-05/science/32550735_1_higgs-particle-cern-large-hadron-collider|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013182326/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-05/science/32550735_1_higgs-particle-cern-large-hadron-collider|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 October 2013|access-date=11 January 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=5 July 2012}}</ref><br />
In addition to this, the centre conducts Trainings, Doctoral Programs to take up research and development work in the frontline areas of particle accelerators, lasers, cryogenics, superconductivity, plasma physics and related high technology fields.<ref name=rrcat-prog>{{cite web|url=http://www.cat.gov.in/hrd/advt/phdad.html|title=Phd Programmes|publisher=Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology|access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref><br />
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