Dr. V.C. Sahni, Director, RRCAT visited Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), U.S.A., with Fermilab's Dr. Shekhar Mishra and signed an agreement with SLAC Director Dr. Persis Drell.

The agreement is an addendum to a pre-existing Memorandum of Understanding between U.S. and Indian universities and accelerator centers that specifies collaborative activities on accelerator R&D and high energy physics projects. As a result of the addendum, SLAC and Indian institutions will work together to further develop a beam dump design and prototypes for the International Linear Collider (ILC). Additionally, Indian institutions will work with both SLAC and Fermilab to develop an ILC radio frequency unit.

The addendum specifies collaborative activities between SLAC and four Indian R&D centers : Raja Ramanna Center of Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata and Inter University Accelerator Center (IUAC), N.Delhi.

Dr. V.C. Sahni, Director,RRCAT, signs an agreement with Dr.Persis Drell, Directior, SLAC.