The 61st session of the JINR Programme Advisory Committee on Particle Physics closed

The 61st session of the JINR Programme Advisory Committee on Particle Physics was held in the House of International Meetings on 20 January 2025.

The 25th workshop of the JUNO Collaboration held in China

The 25th workshop of the JUNO Collaboration was held in Kaiping (Guangdong Province, China) on 13–17 January 2025.

Tellurium-loaded plastic scintillators

The Instruments and Experimental Techniques journal has published an article by staff members of the Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry on the results of developing new tellurium-loaded plastic scintillators.

Previously unknown community of 19 microorganisms discovered in the tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

While analysing samples collected from an unused part of the tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BNO INR RAS), biologists from the Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems have discovered a previously unknown community of microorganisms, including new genera of bacteria.

Happy New Year 2025!

Dear colleagues! Our warmest wishes for the upcoming year to you! May this year open doors to a new life full of gleeful news, pleasant surprises, positive changes, promising starts, and new achievements! We wish you career success, good health, love and support of friends and family, and peace of mind!

Congratulations to the staff members of our laboratory on receiving JINR Grants for 2025!

The Central Expert Commission presented the results of the 2025 Grant Competition for young JINR scientists and specialists held by the Association of Young Scientists and Specialists of JINR (AYSS). There are 16 young staff members of DLNP JINR among the grant recipients.

One year of operation of laser inclinometers in Kamchatka: one step closer to earthquake prediction

In December 2024, the staff members of the Department of Research and Innovation of DLNP JINR Aleksei Krasnoperov, Aleksei Kuzkin, Roman Ni, and Mikhail Lyablin visited the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University. They carried out maintenance of two compact precision laser inclinometers (CPLI) installed in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. M.V. Lyablin made reports on a new type of angular interferometer and on the creation of a compa

Lecture “Neutrinos and black holes: space superheroes” at lyceum No. 6

On Monday, 23 December 2024, Dmitry Vadimovich Naumov held a lecture for fourth-graders “Neutrinos and black holes: space superheroes” at the invitation of Natalia Valeryevna Bovkunova, a teacher of junior classes at lyceum No. 6 named after Academician G. N. Flerov.

No significant evidence of the X17 boson found

In 2016, a group of researchers at the ATOMKI laboratories in Hungary reported an anomaly found in the relative angle distribution of the electron–positron pairs from the internal conversion of gamma rays from the 7Li(p,γ)8Be reaction. The anomaly was later confirmed in two additional processes, helium and carbon, and the so-found excess of events is compatible with the hypothesis of a new boson of mass 17 MeV/c2 — the X17 boson.

Congratulations to Maksim Sorokovikov on successful defence of the candidate dissertation!

Today, on 19 December 2024, Maksim Nikolaevich Sorokovikov has successfully defended his dissertation at the meeting of the Dissertation Council of DLNP JINR. The topic of his work was “Production of charmed particles in hadron-nucleus interactions at high energies in the phenomenological model of quark-gluon strings and calculation of atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes”.

DLNP staff members held a master-class on data analysis in the NOvA neutrino experiment in MSU

On 5 December 2024, the DLNP staff members who participate in the NOvA acceleration neutrino experiment held a master-class devoted to oscillation data analysis for the students of the Faculty of Physics at MSU.