“People from Baikal”. Nikolay Mikhailovich Budnev

Nikolay Mikhailovich Budnev, the Dean of the Faculty of Physics of Irkutsk State University, stood at the origins of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope. For over 40 years, since 1981, he has been involved in this project. The latest edition of the “Let’s voice it” podcast (presenters: Nastya Lotareva (BBC) and Vladimir Shvedov (“Takie dela” (Russian for: “That is the way it is”)) was devoted to Nikolay Mikhailovich and the Baikal Neutrino Observatory. The edition was based on the article “Two thousand three hundred eyes of Baikal. How the Universe is studied in the Earth’s deepest lake” by Natalia Sokolnikova, the journalist of the “People from Baikal” journal.

21st JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics Is Over

Last Saturday, the 21st Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics was completed. It was held online from 12 to 17 July. The School was organized by the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (JINR) and Irkutsk State University. This year, about 40 listeners were involved, 13 of them were foreign participants from India, Egypt, Ukraine, Armenia, Romania and Brazil. The students attended lectures on particle physics and astrophysical neutrinos with great interest, discussed some topical problems under the guidance of supervisors, took part in problem-solving sessions, and presented their research. Igor Ivanov, a co-chair of the Organizing Committee, shared his impressions with us,

Devotion to Science. Alexander Zamolodchikov about His Father. To the Centenary of B. I. Zamolodchikov’s birth (1921−1976)

Today, on 18 July, it is the centennial birthday of Doctor of Technical Sciences Boris Ivanovich Zamolodchikov who can rightly be considered as one of the founders of our Institute. He was invited to Dubna in 1948 soon after graduating from the institute. He was immediately employed as chief engineer of the Hydroengineering Laboratory, the future Laboratory of Nuclear Problems at JINR. He constructed, commissioned and operated the first basic lab facility, a synchrocyclotron, for which he together with his colleagues received the State Stalin Prize. In 1958−1962, he headed the work on increasing cyclotron beam intensity, thanks to which the facility became the then best accelerator of this kind. The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication talked to Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov, a physicist, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, the son of B. I. Zamolodchikov, about the work, family and philosophy of life of his father.

Upgrade of the Facility of the DANSS Experiment

The DANSS facility to study reactor antineutrino fluxes is located in the heart of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), several metres away from the reactor core. DLNP physicists investigate neutrino oscillations and search for sterile neutrinos whose possible existence is indicated by recent calculations of French researchers. Not long ago, a previously scheduled upgrade of the facility started which will allow increasing its efficiency and gaining new results in one of the most promising fields of modern physics.

Tsvetan Vylov as a Prominent Scientist and Science Administrator

Today, we commemorate the 80th birthday of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor Tsvetan Vylov, a prominent scientist and science administrator. The Bulgarian physicist Tsvetan Dimitrov Vylov started his career at JINR in 1968 at the Experimental Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry (EDNSR). He was involved in precision spectrometry of nuclear radiation and initiated a new research direction at JINR, non-accelerator neutrino physics. In 1984, he became a head of EDNSR, in 1988 — a director of the Laboratory, and in 1992 — a vice-director of JINR.

The first day of the 21st Baikal JINR-ISU Summer School

The first day of the 21st Baikal JINR-ISU School organized by the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems and Irkutsk State University is over. This year, we are constrained to organize this annual School online. Despite all the constraints, we have gathered about 30 students from several countries who are eager to listen to lectures on particle physics and astrophysical neutrinos and to give their own presentations. Looking forward to five more days of lectures, talks, and questions!

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.