The representatives from Italy, India and 13 other countries are ready to sign a communique on Wednesday to confirm their participation for a giant particle accelerator that is likely to yield scientists new data about the Big Bang. According to the report, the new device, code-named as FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), will be built at Darmstadt, Frankfurt. This is said to be one of the biggest new science projects in Germany in coming days.

The GSI, German Society for Heavy Ion Research, would administer the $1.7-bn device. The device would start functioning, in 2013 and use beams of ions and anti-protons to discover how matter came into being.

Horst Stoecker, the GSI scientific director, said that the new laboratory would be recreating a mini-version of the Big Bang to discover how the primal explosion 14 billion years ago happened with which the universe came into existence.

He said:

The substance we’ll be making resembles that in the first microseconds of the Big Bang, when it was a million times hotter than at the centre of the Sun. We’re talking a million times 10 million degrees Celsius.

The 3,000 scientists, including several scientists from India, would work at FAIR to discover how the different chemical elements developed in the universe. Stoecker did not tell about any specific deadline but said that Darmstadt’s laboratory will be important in this area for the next 25 years.

Germany would pay 75 percent of the total costs of FAIR laboratory while the other 14 nations, including India, Italy, Spain, Britain, Poland, China and Russia would contributing the rest of total cost.