30.04.2026
News of the laboratory
During the expedition, two more new clusters were installed, three inter-cluster strings with laser calibration light sources were deployed, repairs and upgrades were made to the already installed detector elements, a bottom cable was laid for power supply and data transmission for two clusters, and a full-scale string with optical modules based on 20-inch photomultipliers was commissioned by expedition participants and Chinese colleagues. The effective volume of the facility reached approximately 0.8 km³.
29.04.2026
On Saturday, 18 April 2026, the laureates of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize, often called the “Oscars of Science”, were announced. The main programme awarded six top prizes, each worth 3 million dollars, in biological sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics. In fundamental physics, the prize was awarded to the Muon g-2 collaboration for measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Among the laureates were our colleagues from the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems.
22.04.2026
The first issue of the "Meditsinskaya Fizika" ("Medical Physics") journal for 2026 published a joint article by staff members of the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, NPO “Moscow Radio Engineering Plant”, and FIAN, JSC “Protom” (Protvino) “A set of ionization chambers for the oncoophthalmological complex of the ‘OKO’ project”. The article presents the results of the development, manufacture and testing of a complex of equipment based on ionization chambers.
12.04.2026
Today, 12 April 2026, marks the 113th anniversary of the birth of Venedikt Petrovich Dzhelepov, the first DLNP Director, one of those people who stood at the origins of the history of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
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01.04.2026
Registration is now open for the 26th Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, which will take place from July 11 to July 18, 2026, in the picturesque village of Bolshie Koty (Irkutsk region) on the shore of Lake Baikal.
31.03.2026
Today, on 31 March 2026, Vladimir Rozhkov, researcher of the Sector 2 of Proton-Proton Interactions of the Department of Colliding Beams, has successfully defended his dissertation at the meeting of the Dissertation Council of DLNP JINR. The topic of his work was "Development and experimental study of the characteristics of a high spatial resolution SPECT system based on a Timepix coding aperture detector".
19.03.2026
Today, on 19 March 2026, marks the 80th birthday of Viktor Mukhamedovich Abazov, a researcher of the Department of Colliding Beams of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
16.03.2026
On March 16, 2026, the TV channel "Zvezda" published a report about one of the largest scientific construction projects of the last decade — the construction of the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope — which has united the efforts of more than 80 specialists from five countries.
03.03.2026
In late February 2026, the journal Microbiology Spectrum published an article "Metagenomic analysis of the biofilm community at the oxic-anoxic interface of a deep-underground saline spring at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory". The team of authors includes our colleagues from the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell (Kirill Tarasov, Mikhail Zarubin, Alena Yakhnenko, and Elena Kravchenko) and from the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR RAS (Albert Gangapshev).
02.03.2026
Last week, on 27 February 2026, at the B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Minsk), a successful defenсe of the dissertation by researcher Pavel Vladimirovich Tereshko from the DLNP Department of Multiple Hadron Processes took place at a meeting of the Dissertation Defence Council D 01.05.02.
26.02.2026
Working meeting "The Baikal-GVD Neutrino Telescope 2026" has began on Lake Baikal, in the village of Listvyanka (Irkutsk region). It will be held 25-28 February 2026.
20.02.2026
By the decision of the International Jury, approved by the JINR Scientific Council, the 2025 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize was awarded to Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), for the development of theoretical and phenomenological aspects of the neutrino Minimal Standard Model stimulating its further experimental tests.
