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.

The Exhibition of Paintings by V. I. Komarov Goes On (Photos from the Opening Ceremony)

The painting exhibition by V. I. Komarov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, the DLNP chief researcher, is underway at the Culture Centre “Mir”. Please take a look at the photographs from the Opening Ceremony. The exhibition is open till 30 June, daily, from 15.00 to 19.00.

A New GNN Monthly Issue Published (News from Large Neutrino Telescopes)

How five detection units and one junction box were installed at the KM3NeT/ARCA site in the Mediterranean Sea, who became part of a new GNN board, how IceCube will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and also some news about BAIKAL-GVD, recent publications on data analysis, announcements of Schools, conferences and workshops — you will find all this information in the April issue of GNN Monthly. The current edition of GNN Monthly

Interview with the Authors of the Patent Viktor Smirnov and Sergey Dolya

Sergey Dolya and Viktor SmirnovA few days ago, the invention of the scientists of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems “Resonant capacitor charger” was included in Top 100 best inventions in Russia in the second half of the year. This is a great achievement and an excellent illustration of the fact that advance of fundamental science can be a driver of scientific and technical progress.

21st JINR—ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics

We announce the 21st JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, which will have a modular structure this year. The main part of the school including the core lecture program will be held online from July 12 to 17, 2021. The lecture program: • Andreas Trautner — Standard Model• Alessandro Papa — Quantum Chromodynamics• Manfred Jeitler — The LHC results and future collider projects• Sergio Palomares-Ruiz — Astrophysical neutrinos• Alessio Porcelli — IceCube results

The Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP) Announced the 2022 Program

The 2022 MIAPP Program has been announced. It will take place at the Garching Research Campus, close to the city of Munich. Application for participation is now open online.  

The Opening of the Painting Exhibition by V. I. Komarov (Video)

Today, the exhibition of paintings by Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, the DLNP chief researcher V. I. Komarov has been opened. Relatives, friends and colleagues of Vladimir Ivanovich got together in the exhibition hall of the Culture Centre “Mir”.