The Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology is a unit of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, engaged in R&D in non-nuclear front-line research areas of Lasers, Particle Accelerators and related technologies.
RRCAT has developed two synchrotron radiation sources going by the name of "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 provide training to young scientists at BARC Training School located in its campus who later join several DAE units like BARC Mumbai, IGCAR Kalpakkam, VECC Kolkata and RRCAT itself as Scientific Officers.
RRCAT has also been actively involved in providing scientific and material assistance to the CERN sponsored Large Hadron Collider.
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.
A RRCAT unit is at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.