The 2020 DLNP Research Award Competition: Boris Popov about the Research of Hadron Production in Proton−Nucleus Interactions in NA61/SHINE (CERN) to Precisely Predict Neutrino Spectra and Fluxes in T2K (Japan)

Recently, the results of the 2020 Research Award Competition of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems have been announced. The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication spoke with the winners about their research. One of the two second Prizes was awarded to the authors: S. A. Bunyatov, A. V. Krasnoperov, B. A. Popov, V. V. Tereshchenko from the Experimental Department of Multiple Hadronic Processes and V. V. Liubushkin from the Section of Elementary Particles for the series of papers “Research of hadron production in proton−nucleus interactions in the NA61/SHINE experiment (CERN) to precisely predict neutrino spectra and fluxes in the T2K accelerator experiment (Japan)”. We talked to Boris Albertovich Popov about the research behind this series.

The 2020 DLNP Research Award Competition: Aleksei Zhemchugov about Studies of Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor Detectors

Recently, the results of the 2020 Research Award Competition of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems have been announced. The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication spoke with the winners about their research. The first Prize was awarded for the series of papers “Study of radiation hardness of semiconductor detectors of high-resistance GaAs:Cr against electron and fast neutron irradiation carried out at basic JINR facilities” by E. S. Abdel-Shakur, M. I. Gostkin, A. V. Guskov, M. A. Demichev, A. S. Zhemchugov, V. V. Kobets. V. G. Kruchonok, A. Leyva, A. A. Nozdrin and S. Yu. Porohovoy. It was Aleksei Sergeevich Zhemchugov who talked on behalf of the team about the research behind this series.

White Motor Ship

Summer, the Volga and a motor ship are Dubna’s evergreens. Attendees of the 1963 International Conference on High-Energy Accelerators are having a good time onboard. The “Sviyaga” motor ship. Early in August. Bruno Pontecorvo with his wife Marianna and conference colleagues are in the photograph.

Krzysztof Siemek about the First Results of the Experiment on Development of a Coating with Unique Radiation Hardness Properties

Recently, an article about the first results of the experiment on development of a coating with unique radiation hardness properties has been published on the website “Nauka — RIA Novosti”. The research is being performed by scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in cooperation with the Weinberg Research Center (WRC, TPU) and the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (DLNP, JINR). 

May Issue of GNN Monthly Published (News from Large Neutrino Telescopes)

What bets the attendees of the International Workshop VLVnT made for the year 2031 and why whales are at play; for which neutrino mass ordering most scientists voted; what results were presented by the KM3NeT collaboration for the first time; and also about relevant publications in the neutrino detection field — to find out all this and even more, please read in the May issue of GNN-Monthly. The current edition of the GNN-Monthly

Mark Shirchenko Was a Guest of “Brunch with a Scientist” at the Polytechnic Museum

This Sunday, the researcher of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Mark Shirchenko took part in the popular event of the Polytechnic Museum “Brunch with a Scientist”. We were eager to know how it went on.

A Series of Seminars to Commemorate Tsvetan Vylov Will Be Held at DLNP

In 2021, Tsvetan Vylov (13.07.1941—13.12.2009) would have celebrated his 80th birthday. He is a prominent Bulgarian physicist who contributed a lot to establishing the spectroscopy “school” at JINR and who, among others, initiated the experimental DLNP neutrino programme as we know it today. To celebrate his 80th birthday, a series of seminars will be organized at the Experimental Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry which he headed in 1984−1988. The first talk will be given by A. Kh. Inoyatov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, who had been working under the guidance of Tsvetan Vylov for a long time.    

The Head of the Borexino Group at JINR Oleg Smirnov about the Receiving the Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize of the European Physical Society

BOREXINO“The needle is in an egg, the egg is in a duck, the duck is in a hare, the hare is in a chest”, this fairy tale imagery is evoked when one thinks of the detector structure of the Borexino experiment. The nylon vessel with a radius of 4 m contains almost 300 t of liquid scintillator. The stainless-steel sphere with a radius of 8.5 m encloses it. About 700 t of buffer fluid is between the nylon bag and the sphere. The entire construction is immersed into the tank with 2.5 t of ultrapure water. The detector itself is shielded by the massive Italian mountain Gran Sasso.

2020 DLNP Research Award Competition Results

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Research Award Competition! The first prize was awarded to the authors: E. S. Abdel-Shakur, M. I. Gostkin, A. V. Guskov, M. A. Demichev, A. S. Zhemchugov, V. V. Kobets. V. G. Kruchonok, A. Leyva, A. A. Nozdrin and S. Yu. Porokhovoy from the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams for the series of papers “Study of radiation hardness of semiconductor detectors of high-resistance GaAs:Cr against electron and fast neutron irradiation carried out at basic JINR facilities” .

“Brunch with a Scientist” on 27 June: Mark Shirchenko, DLNP (JINR)

Twice a month, the Polytechnic Museum holds informal Sunday meetings with scientists in the best bars of Moscow. They speak about the most intriguing things at the cutting edge of science — what kind of research is performed at laboratories, what was discovered and what discoveries are going to be technologies. In May, the Deputy DLNP Director D. V. Naumov was invited to the Sunday brunch. This Sunday, questions of the host will be answered by Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, the chief DLNP researcher M. V. Shirchenko.

DLNP Express Workshops

Renovated express workshops have been opened on the ground floor of the DLNP building. This location of the workshops is traditional: from time immemorial, experimentalists made by themselves necessary components and devices here. Old-timers certainly remember both smell of lubricant and metal in the hallways and room shelves stuffed with all sorts of necessary and unnecessary spare parts, tools and devices.

Interview with Vladimir Komarov about His Artwork

The exhibition of paintings by V. I. Komarov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, the DLNP chief researcher, goes on at the Culture Centre “Mir”. You are invited daily from 15.00 to 19.00. Every Friday, at 17.00, you can talk to the painter Vladimir Ivanovich Komarov. Please come! Those who have no opportunity to visit the exhibition can watch a short interview filmed to support the personal exhibition where V. I. Komarov is speaking about his life and art.