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Mumbai: Indian flag will fly high at the brand new international atom smasher experimental facility near Geneva in Switzerland, which begins its operation on Wednesday.

India has made major scientific and technological contribution to this new atom smasher also called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). LHC is expected to answer several facts of fundamental nature of the universe that remains a mystery, said the scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

TIFR will be webcasting the event in Geneva through its bandwidth, for the benefit of media as well as the scientists, Prof Atul Gurtu senior scientist department of high energy physics, TIFR said.

Indian laboratories, led by Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) at Indore, have contributed substantially towards construction of the accelerator (LHC) itself, with many components being fabricated by Indian industry and supplied to CERN, Gurtu said.

These had to satisfy not only exacting standards of precision but also follow a stringent time-line as dictated by the CERN schedule.

Towards the scientific side, two Indian teams are participating in different experiments.

Each of these collaborations is huge with 1000-2000 scientists from 125-150 top class institutions from 20-30 countries participating.

Each full detector costs around $400-$500 million to build and the R&D and fabrication takes around a decade.