Scientific Program


International Symposium on Vacuum Science & Technology
and its Application for Accelerators (IVS-2012)
February 15-17, 2012
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre


Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012
Session 1 (Plenary)
IT - 01 Vacuum Systems of Accelerators at Indus Complex

S. K. Shukla, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore


IT - 02 Experience with first full year of LHC operation

G. Bregliozzi, et.al, CERN, CH - 1211 Geneva 23


IT - 03 Vacuum System of the Large Cyclotrons at VECC

Gautam Pal, VEC Centre, Kolkata


Session 2 (Plenary)
IT - 04 Operational experience and upgrade of the TRIUMF cyclotron vacuum system

Y. Bylinski, D. Yosifov, TRIUMF, Canada


IT - 05 Recent Developments in RIKEN RI-Beam Factory

Osamu Kamigaito, Accelerator Group, RIKEN Nishina


IT - 06 Vacuum system at IUAC

A. Mandal, Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi


IT - 07 Superconducting heavy ion LINAC booster at the TIFR.

R. G. Pillay, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai


Parallel Session 3A
Oral 01 Design, fabrication, and performance testing of a vacuum chamber for pulse compressor of a 150 TW Ti:sapphire laser

P. K. Tripathi, et.al., RRCAT,Indore


Oral 02 Design, Installation and Commissioning of new Vacuum Chamber for Analysing Magnet of K-130 Cyclotron

Bidhan Ch. Mandal, et.al., VECC, Kolkata


Oral 03 Vacuum Brazing of Accelerator Components

Rajvir Singh, et.al., RRCAT,Indore


Oral 04 Design and construction of a target chamber and associated equipments for the BARC Charged Particle Detector Array

Bency John Vilavinal, et.al., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre


Oral 05 Influence of Wall Conditioning on ADITYA Plasma Discharges

R. L. Tanna, et.al., Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat


Oral 06 K-130 Cyclotron Vacuum System

R. C. Yadav, et.al., VECC, Kolkata


Parallel Session 3B
Oral 07 Multipurpose Vacuum Induction Processing System

M, Govindaraju, et.al., NFTDC, Hyderabad


Oral 08 Fabrication of Niobium Superconducting Accelerator Cavity by Electron Beam Welded Joints

Tanmay K. Saha, et.al., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre


Oral 09 Study on Condensation and Recycle of Liquid Metal in Vacuum

Jaya Mukherjee, et.al., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre


Oral 10 Broadband Antireflection Coating on Zincsulphide Window for Shortwave Infrared cum Night Vision System

Anand Shanker Upadhyaya, Prasun Kumar Bandyopadhyay , DRDO


Oral 11 Evaluation of Ti-Zr-V (NEG) Thin Films for Their Pumping Speed and Pumping Capacity

Tripti Bansod, et.al., Raja Ramanna Centre for Advance Technology


Oral 12 Pulsed and RF Glow Discharge in Helium Atmosphere

Pooja Gulati, et.al., CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani


Thursday, Feb 16, 2012
Session 4 (Plenary)
IT – 08 Minimizing contamination of SRF niobium cavities for achieving high performance

Ganapati Myneni, Accelerator R&D, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA


IT – 09 The LIGO Vacuum Systems: Challenges and Solutions

Michael Zucker, LIGO Laboratory, MIT, USA


IT – 10 Activities towards development of a high Intensity proton accelerator for ADS

P. Singh, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai


IT – 11 Role of IISc in the development of Cryopumps for fusion applications

S. Kasthurirengan, CCT, IISc, Bangalore.


IT – 12 Turbo Pumps – From Theory to Practice

Andreas Schopphoff , Pfiffer


Parallel Session 5A
Oral 13 Establishment of a Force Balanced Piston Gauge for Very Low Gauge and Absolute Pressure Measurements at NPL, India,

Arun Vijayakumar, et.al., NPL


Oral 14 Development and UHV Testing of LN2 Cooled Titanium Sublimation Pump

B. K. Sindal,, et.al., Raja Ramanna Centre for Advance Technology


Oral 15 Study of Hydrogen Pumping through Condensed Argon in Cryogenic pump

K. A. Jadeja, S. B. Bhatt, Institute for plasma research, Bhat, Gandhinagar


Oral 16 In- Service Helium Leak Testing of Vacuum Furnace

Anis Ahmad, et.al., QAD, BARC


Oral 17 Vacuum System in the IN-TF and Optimisation of Pumping Requirements

Rambilas Prasad et.al. presented by A.K. Chakraborty , ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research


Parallel Session 5B
Oral 18 Open Loop, Auto Reversing Liquid Nitrogen Circulation Thermal System for Thermo Vacuum Chamber

MCA Naidu, ISRO


Oral 19 Conceptual Design of Vacuum Chamber for testing of High Heat Flux Components using Electron Beam as a Source

Mohammad Shoaib Khan, et.al., Institute for Plasma Research


Oral 20 Vacuum System Design for PWT Linac Structure

Saket Kumar Gupta, Sanjay Chouksey, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore


Oral 21 Development of UHV Compatible Carbon Attenuator Coating on APBN Support Rods for a Helix TWT

Suneeta Arya, Vishnu Srivastava, CEERI


Oral 22 Vacuum Aspects of ITER Diagnostic Systems

Kaushal Patel, IPR


Session 6 (Plenary)
IT – 13 The Development of the Unique and Large Cryopump System for the Heating Neutral Beam Injection of ITER

St. Hanke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany


IT–14 Development of High Power Vacuum Tubes for Accelerators and Plasma heating

Vishnu Srivastava, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani


IT – 15 Response Time Reduction and Sensitivity Increase during Mass Spectrometric Helium Leak Detection of very large size vacuum systems by Hood Technique

Venkat Ramani, ADITYA High Vacuum Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedbad 382430, Gujrat, India


IT – 16 Vacuum system for Fusion Devices

S. B. Bhatt, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, INDIA


IT – 17 Superconducting e-Linac Project at VECC Kolkata

Vaishali Naik, DAE/VECC, Kolkata, India


A. S. Divatia Memorial Lecture


Friday, Feb 17, 2012
Session 8 (Plenary)
IT-18 Low Energy ECR based Ion Beam Facility at VECC

G. S. Taki et. al. VECC Kolkata


IT-19 Sustained Performance of 8 MeV Microtron

Ganesh Sanjeev, Microtron Centre, Mangalore University


IT-20 Technological Aspects of High Power Klystron Development

L. M. Joshi, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani


IT- 21 Development of Indigenous Electron Beam Machines for Material Processing – Overview of BARC Activity

A. V. Bapat , Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai


IT- 22 Electron Linac Development for Radiation Processing and Neutron Production

K.C. Mittal, Electron Beam Center, APPD/ BARC, Mumbai


IT-23 Formation of nano-patterns by ion beam sputtering

D. Ghose, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata


Session 9 (Plenary)
IT-24 ITER Project; Vacuum Vessel and Vacuum Requirements

Kimihiro Ioki , ITER Organization, France


IT-25 New Approach on vacuum requirement in UHV/XHV systems by Non Evaporable Getter Technology

Enrico Maccallini and Paolo Manini, Saes Getters S.p.a., Viale Italia, Italy


IT-26 Review and status of dry vacuum pump technologies and their application in High Energy Physics

Murray Liston, Edwards


IT-27 PECVD/ECR/HWCVD Multichamber System with Robotic Substrate Handling System for Deposition of Thin Film Electronic Devices

P. Rava, Elettrorava s.p.a., Via Don Sapino 176, 10078 Venaria, Torino Italy