“How to Catch Uncatchable Neutrinos”: Bair Shaybonov in the New Edition of the Podcast “Kot Ucheniy” on Radio Sputnik

A new edition of the podcast “Kot Ucheniy” (“The Learned Cat”) was issued on Radio Sputnik. The guest was a permanent participant of the Baikal expeditions to construct the neutrino telescope, a senior DLNP researcher Bair Shaybonov. He talked about the nature of the elusive particle, the way scientists can “see” it, the structure of the Baikal-GVD telescope and many other things.

Sergey Shvidky Was Granted the Medal “Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 200th Anniversary”

Celebrating the World Poetry Day on 20 March 2022, a ceremony was held at the Large Conference Hall of the Government of Moscow where medals “Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 200th Anniversary” were awarded. According to the decision of the General Committee of the Union of Russian Writers, our colleague Sergey Vasilevich Shvidky was granted this award.

January/February Issue of GNN Monthly with News from the World of Large Neutrino Telescopes

From this issue you will learn how the ANTARES facility was put out of service, in which way the 2022 winterover team gathered at the South Pole, which tasks were performed on the deep-underwater platform of KM3NeT/ORCA during sea operations, and also, you will find the summary of papers on neutrino astronomy here. The current GNN Monthly issue

“For Impeccable Labour and Excellence”: Alexander Olshevskiy and Nikolay Rusakovich Granted High Awards

On 25 March 2022, an event devoted to the 66th anniversary of the foundation of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was held at the JINR Scientists’ Club. The Head of the DLNP Experimental Department of Particle Physics Alexander Grigorevich Olshevskiy and the chief DLNP researcher Nikolay Artemevich Rusakovich were granted the Medals of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education “For Impeccable Labour and Excellence” III class.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. Laying the Second Bottom Cable

The second bottom cable is being laid from the telescope to the shore. Mikhail Milenin’s team is in action. About two kilometres are left behind during one day.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. New Winch

The new winch has been assembled on the ice near the shore.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. Ice Camp Panorama

To view the full panorama, click the square located top right, near the INFO sign. You can navigate through the panorama holding on the left button of the mouse.

JINR Scientists Giving a Series of Lectures at the Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU)

The series started with a lecture by the chief engineer of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Sergey Yakovenko. He explained to students and schoolchildren from the Arkhangelsk Oblast the JINR developments in tumour treatment and the design of the future medical superconducting cyclotron for proton therapy which is two or three times more effective than photon therapy. The lecture awoke a genuine interest. Attendees were eager to know how nuclear physics is connected to medicine, how irradiation accuracy will be achieved and whether the synchrophasotron constructed in the middle of the last century will still be used.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. Buoys

Buoys, plastic hollow orbs, provide positive buoyancy. There are two types of buoys. Orange buoys hold the string vertically, green ones horizontally support crosspieces between the central and peripheral strings.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. News by Bair Shaybonov

Today, eight newly mounted strings of Cluster 9 have been tested. All of them are connected in a regular way. Preparations for laying the bottom cable of Cluster 10 are finished. The first 700 m of this cable are laid. Cluster 7 is repaired, and data taking is resumed.

Installing Two Compact Precision Laser Inclinometers in the Hall of the MPD NICA detector

On 4 March 2022, two compact precision laser inclinometers (CPLIs) designed at the Experimental Department of Multiple Hadronic Processes at the Sector of Mikhail Vasilevich Lyablin were transported to the experimental hall of the MPD NICA detector. The main objective of the operational start of two inclinometers is determining the level of angular microseismic vibrations in the immediate vicinity of the MPD detector, and later, with an inclinometer network developed, along the entire perimeter of the NICA collider.

Chronicles of the 2022 Baikal Expedition. 360 km of Cables

One can imagine that the Baikal Neutrino Telescope is nothing more than just optical modules. Cables play a key role as well — they supply clusters with voltage and transmit signals. Each string comprises about 4.5 km of cables. That is, the entire telescope with 10 clusters (eight strings in each) will have about 360 km of cables at the end of the expedition. And this is without considering those lines that run to the shore.