Congratulations to Nikolay Atanov on the Successful Defence of the Candidate Dissertation!

On 25 February 2021, at the session of the DLNP Dissertation Council, Nikolay Vasilevich Atanov defended the dissertation “Front-end electronics and photosensors for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the Mu2e experiment” for the degree of the Candidate of Physics and Mathematics in Specialty 01.04.01: Instruments and methods of experimental physics. Our congratulations to Nikolay on the successful defence of the candidate dissertation! We wish you further scientific achievements!  

Congratulations to Konstantin Shipulin on the Successful Defence of the Candidate Dissertation!

On 25 February 2021, at the session of the DLNP Dissertation Council, Konstantin Nikolaevich Shipulin defended the dissertation “Software and hardware design for planning and quality assurance of conformal proton beam therapy” for the degree of the Candidate of Physics and Mathematics in Specialty 01.04.01: Instruments and methods of experimental physics. Our congratulations to Konstantin on the successful defence of the candidate dissertation! We wish you further scientific achievements!  

The 2020 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize

Photo from jinr.ruAt the 129th session held on 18−19 February in Dubna, the JINR Scientific Council approved the decision of the International Jury to award the 2020 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize to Professor NIWA Kimio (Nagoya University, Japan) for the development of the high-resolution nuclear emulsion technique, which led to identification of the tau neutrino and direct observation of tau neutrino oscillations. 

Congratulations to Elena Kravchenko and Anastasia Ivanova on Receiving a Patent!

The JINR Department of Licensing and Intellectual Property announces that on 29 January 2021, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research received the patent for the invention “Method for determining genetic predisposition to human longevity”. The authors are Elena Vladimirovna Kravchenko and Anastasia Evgenevna Ivanova.  

In Lockdown 6: Chronicles and Comments

We continue telling you about our visit to the DLNP Metrology Laboratory. Applications of a precision laser inclinometer, developed by scientists from the Section of Laser Metrology of the DLNP Experimental Department of Multiple Hadronic Processes, are quite diverse. We already wrote how the device is used in physical mega-science facilities—colliders and gravitational telescopes.

In Lockdown 5: Chronicles and Comments

The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication visited Section 3 of Proton−Antiproton Interactions of the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams at DLNP. This March, the Section will complete manufacturing Micromegas detectors for new small wheels (NSWs) of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) according to the LHC Phase 1 upgrade.

A Typewritten Word

The profession of a typist, “a person who is employed for typing” (a dictionary entry), became a thing of the past. Although typists type fast (and in this sense they could be needed even today), they were replaced by speech recognition software which operates faster.

An Interview with Dmitry Naumov on Channel 5

Dmitry Naumov was shortly interviewed by Channel 5 about the BAIKAL-GVD project. “Next exceptional steps of humankind in space are unthinkable without fundamental science. Novel devices, technologies, equipment and the very space race start with calculations and experiments in laboratories and scientific centres”, the presenter says.

In Lockdown 4: Chronicles and Comments

The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication visited the Remote Operation Center (ROC-Dubna) of NOvA, a long-baseline neutrino experiment studying neutrino oscillations when a shaped particle beam is sent to the Far Detector located 810 km away from the source.

The 17th JUNO Collaboration Meeting Took Place

From 25 January to 5 February 2021, the 17th JUNO collaboration meeting was held. More than 200 people from 77 scientific institutions attended the online conference. Reports on detector construction and preparation of underground experimental halls were presented. Despite travel restrictions, the largest underground laboratory and all detector sub-systems are constructed with minimum delays. The detector is due to be launched at the end of 2022. Now, the collaboration is preparing the most significant stage—the commissioning of the experiment. It is expected that the detector will operate not less than 30 years. The first physical results will be obtained in a year after its launch.  

Happy Russian Science Day! Our Greetings to Employees of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems and of the Entire JINR, and Also to Our Colleagues and Partners!

We wish you glorious scientific results, breakthrough ideas, sparks of creativity and sometimes great patience—for instance, W. Pauli had been waiting for experimental verification of his neutrino theory for 26 years. We follow advancement of domestic science, are happy about its success and gladly tell you about discoveries which make our life easier, more interesting and better. It is obvious that there is no progress without science. But how do scientists interpret science for themselves? Just as a thing bringing practical use and everyday labour? Let us reflect on this topic together with the Director of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Vadim Alexandrovich Bednyakov and his film “Life, its Purpose… and Science”.  

Call for Submissions for the DLNP Research Award Competition Announced

The DLNP Research Award Competition was initiated in order to motivate scientific activity of DLNP researchers and to enhance the quality of publications. Research papers can be nominated for the Award if published in peer-reviewed journals within two years before the date of the Competition announcement. To find out more about the Competition terms, have a look at General Rules and Regulations of the DLNP Research Award Competition. Papers are to be submitted to the DLNP Scientific Secretary Irina Viktorovna Titkova (titkova@jinr.ru) till 1 March 2021.