LHC Pilot Testing after Almost Three-Year Break

On 19 October 2021, at 15:46, a milestone event for the ATLAS collaboration happened after an almost three-year upgrade break ― the first collision events between proton beams and collimators were recorded during the planned testing of the detector and the accelerator in preparation for the 2022 restart.

Café “Neutrino”

Twenty years ago, the building of Dubna’s legendary café “Neutrino” near the railway station “Dubna” was demolished. The cafe experienced its greatest days in the far-away 1970s, but its fame was so great that it is still echoing. Even local youth and tourists can still ask, “What about that thing, the “Neutrino” café?“ Not to mention the old-timers’ nostalgia for it...

September Issue of GNN Monthly: News from the World of Large Neutrino Telescopes

You can learn from the September issue of the News from Large Neutrino Telescopes about the deployment of the KM3NeT telescope in the Mediterranean Sea (account is accompanied by colourful photographs), about upgrade plans of the IceCube observatory and about other events in which the Global Neutrino Network (GNN) collaborations took part. You can also read the summary of publications about studies performed in the field of multimessenger astronomy. The current issue of the GNN news

Science Programme of the Meeting “ITMO University – JINR: Prospects for Cooperation” to Be Held on 19−20 October 2021

Next week, from 19 to 20 October 2021, the ITMO University delegation will come for a visit to JINR (https://itmo.ru/) to discuss prospects for possible cooperation between our organizations. ITMO University (St. Petersburg) is a national research university, the leading Russian institution of higher education in information and photon technologies and one of the leaders of the global and national academic community. ITMO embraces above 12 thousand students from 90 countries of the world and above 4000 staff members: scientists, academics, methodologists.

September 2021 Issue

News from the experiments   ANTARES and Baikal-GVD Taking data, nothing special...

Science Communication Is a New Concept and New Knowledge

The interview with Dmitry Naumov (DLNP Deputy Director) and Elena Dubovik (DLNP SciCom Group) about the DLNP Group of Scientific Communication and science communication in general was published in the weekly newspaper “Dubna: Science, Community, Progress”. On 8 September, the seminar “Group of Scientific Communication: Share Knowledge, Explain What is Going On, Keep the History” was held at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems. The DLNP Deputy Director of Science Dmitry Naumov led the seminar. The head of the Group Elena Dubovik talked about the results gained after one and a half years of work, about ongoing and upcoming projects. Later, Igor Ivanov, a noted science educator, theoretical physicist, DLNP researcher, joined the discussion. Since the questions were asked mostly by DLNP staff members, the weekly decided to ask the Group to tell us in more detail about their activities. We hope that this experience will be helpful to other JINR subdivisions.

DUNE: Striving for Revolutionary Discoveries

The preparation stage of DUNE, the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, on the basis of the accelerator complex of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab, USA) has started long ago. An important milestone of the whole project was the ceremony marking the start of construction of the Far Detector infrastructure on 21 July 2017. At present, the DUNE project involves more than 1000 scientists from different countries of the world. And scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) are among the members of this large international collaboration. The DUNE experiment is expected to be launched after 2025. Nikolay Anfimov, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Head of the Sector of Experimental Methodology of the DLNP Experimental Department of Particle Physics (EDPP), one of the leaders of the JINR group involved in the project, talks about the significance of DUNE for the world’s science, about experimental objectives and stages, and the role of our group in this project.

Compact Precision Laser Inclinometer Developed at JINR Installed at the International Science Centre “Garni Geophysical Observatory”

From 26 September to 2 October 2021, researchers from the Experimental Department of Multiple Hadron Processes of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems Mikhail Lyablin, Alexey Kuzkin and Grach Torosyan were on their working trip to Armenia with an aim to install a compact precision laser inclinometer at the International Science Centre “Garni Geophysical Observatory”.

DLNP at the Festival NAUKA 0+

These days, from 8 to 10 October 2021, the All-Russian Festival NAUKA 0+ is being held. It is the key event of the Year of Science and Technology. A JINR stand is presented on one of Moscow’s festival sites, at the MSU Fundamental Library, where models of basic facilities of our Institute are displayed. The models of the Baikal-GVD Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope and of the Medical-Technical Complex are among them. During these three festival days, DLNP researchers Yury Malyshkin (Experimental Department of Elementary Particle Physics) and Alexander Verkheev (Experimental Department of Hadron Physics) will answer guests’ questions. On Sunday, the lecture “Neutrinos are the clue to the comprehension of the Universe” will be given by D. V. Naumov at the Shuvalov building of MSU.

Lecture of D. V. Naumov at the All-Russian Festival NAUKA 0+

On Sunday, 10 October 2021, at 13:00, the offline lecture “Neutrinos are the clue to the comprehension of the Universe” will be given at the Shuvalov building of MSU by Dmitry Vadimovich Naumov, Deputy Director of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (JINR). Attendees will be able to enjoy a fascinating story about the discovery of neutrinos, mysterious and elusive ghost particles that saved the law of conservation of energy-momentum. Despite their weak interaction, neutrinos left a significant imprint in the history of the Universe and assisted in revealing modern fundamental laws of physics. Intensive research within the JINR Neutrino Programme is being performed at JINR.

On 7 October, a Ceremony of Awarding the 2020 RAS Prizes for the Best Work on Science Popularization Took Place

On Tuesday, 7 October 2021, a ceremony of awarding the 2020 RAS Prizes for the best work on science popularization was held at the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The RAS President A. M. Sergeev and members of the RAS Committee on science popularization participated in the ceremony. The RAS President Alexander Sergeev emphasised the significance of reliability of information in the present-day world, especially of science information, “Activities of people who earnestly deal with science information are of great value. They “digest” information, communicate with scientists to become entirely convinced of its reliability and share it with the community. It is the way we see activities of true science educators. And all of you present here are of this kind. We are really grateful to you. We believe that the significance of your activities will only increase with time.”

Decommissioning Phases of the Borexino Detector Will Start on Monday, 4 October

Ezio Previtali, Director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, congratulated collaboration members on the unprecedented results obtained by the Borexino experiment. He believes that Borexino can be considered as one of the most important experiments in neutrino physics ever realized. In spite of the detector shutdown, the Borexino collaboration will continue its functioning for at least two years. The processing of the accumulated data is intended to be completed. The special focus will be on the data taken after the thermal insulation of the detector till its shutdown.