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The study of heavy ion induced nuclear reactions around Coulomb barrier has provided information for understanding important aspects of nuclear structure and its implications to nuclear astrophysics. To probe the nuclear structure and related phenomena more deeply, new facilities with multi-detector arrays have come up across the world. Furthermore new accelerator facilities are coming up, which will provide high intensity of accelerated exotic beams. New kind of experiments are being planned for the studies with rare isotopes. These experiments demand state of the art detector instrumentation, which can characterize these new isotopes in terms of their energy, identity (A,Z), spatial information, timing etc. New generation of particle detectors such as position sensitive proportional counters and silicon detectors, ionization chambers, scintillation detectors etc., along with their front-end electronics are being designed with higher solid angle coverage and count rate handling capbilities for improved statistics. In the scope of the future facilities at FAIR new detector systems for particle identification are being planned and developed, based on the detectors described above, with the idea of improving the efficiency, timing, position and energy resolutions, and large solid angle coverage. New detectors are being developed for beam characterization for future SDB facility at NUSTAR-FAIR. The ongoing development in charged particle detectors in this context at the IUAC will be presented.
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