On May 16, 2018, within the framework of the Dubna visit of Prof. K. Jakobs, spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, a meeting of the JINR participants in the ATLAS Collaboration was held.
The results and plans of physics research in the fields of the Standard Model, Higgs boson physics, search for new physics, and heavy quark physics were presented, and the prospects for the JINR participation in the operation of the facility and its upgrading during the upcoming technical shutdown were discussed. Also, readiness of JINR for manufacture of MicroMegas detectors was demonstrated to Prof. K. Jakobs.