Lecture meetings of Dmitry Vadimovich Naumov with the staff members and students of Tomsk State University

On December 4–5, 2018, D.N. Naumov will hold lecture meetings with the teaching staff and students of the Faculty of Physics at Tomsk State University.He will talk about the scientific, educational, and innovational activities of our institute, elaborating on the Neutrino Programme, especially the deep-water Baikal neutrino telescope.Collaboration within the Baikal–GVD experiment is a unique and quite real opportunity to participate in the world-class research project.  

Lyudmila Kolupaeva: "The first joint analysis with the neutrino and antineutrino beams in the NOvA experiment."

    NOvA is the accelerator-based experiment located at Fermilab (USA) and designed to study neutrino oscillations (appearance of the electron neutrino and disappearance of the muon neutrino in the neutrino/antineutrino beams).It is one of the new-generation experiments with two detectors arranged at an angle of 14 mrad with the NuMI beam from the accelerator and separated by 810 km of earth formation.The primary goals of the experiment are search for CP violation in the lepton sector and measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy and a few oscillation parameters with a better accuracy.

Preview of the seminar “BESIII: status and prospects” by Igor Boiko, 21.11.2018

    The BESIII experiment is being conducted at the BEPCII electron–positron collider with the annihilation energy of 2 to 4.6 GeV in Beijing. The collider has a record luminosity (10^33/cm^2/s) for this energy range.The collected statistics of the experimental data is 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than statistics of other experiments.The BESIII research programme is quite wide, including study of charmed particles and charmonium states, light hadron spectroscopy, tau-lepton physics, search for new physical phenomena, and a lot more.

Zinatulina D.R.: Study of muon capture by the gamma-spectroscopy methods. The current status and prospects.

  Preview of the seminar on high-energy physics and nuclear structure, 19.11.2018. Energy and time spectra of γ-radiation from the muon capture on Se, Cd, Kr, Sm, and Ti isotopes are measured using HPGe detectors.

D.V. Naumov: What do we know about dark matter?

    Preview of the popular-science lecture by D.V. Naumov reviewing the status of dark matter in the Universe. 

Preview of the General Laboratory Seminar by Oleg Smirnov, 8 November 2018

  New Borexino results on measurement of solar neutrino fluxes were published in Natureon 25 October. Simultaneous spectral analysis of neutrino fluxes from the pp, Be-7, and pepreactions was performed for the first time. Unlike previous ones, this analysis was made in a wide energy range including three components of the solar neutrino spectrum.

Review lecture “Solar neutrinos” by Dmitri Vadimovich Naumov

    The review lecture “Solar neutrinos” by D.V. Naumov is intended for a wide audience beginning with junior students.

Fabrice Piquemal about the Modane Underground Laboratory (France)

    The General Laboratory Seminar on the Modane Underground Laboratoryin the Fréjus Tunnel (France) was given by Fabrice Piquemal at DLNP on 29 October 2018.

Video abstract of the General Laboratory Seminar by Reham El-Kholy (Cairo University, Egypt), 24 October 2018

  Reham El-Kholy (Cairo University, Egypt) speaks about a possibilityof studying production of antiprotons in the SPD detector at the NICAL collider for searching dark matter in astrophysical experiments. 

Stepan Agaronovich Bunyatov passed away

Professor Stepan Agaronovich Bunyatov, a talented scientist, outstanding organizer of science, doctor of science in physics and mathematics, passed away on 24 October 2018. S.A. Bunyatov began working at the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems in February 1956.He defended the candidate of science dissertation in 1965and the doctoral dissertation in1977. In 1982, the title of professor was conferred on him.   His scientific interests lay in the fields of neutrino physics, charmed particle physics, interactions of π mesons and protons with nucleons and nuclei, πN→ππN reaction near the production threshold, and pion–pion interactions.  S.A. Bunyatov is a co-author of two discoveries, double π-meson charge exchange and production and decay of the nucleon-stable helium-8 nucleus, which were predicted by Ya.B. Zel’dovich.

General Laboratory Seminar by Dr. Bernhard Schwingenheuer (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg), 22 October 2018

    Dr. Bernhard Schwingenheuer speaks about the current status and perspectives of the LNGS experiments on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay.

Winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental physics

Yesterday, on 17 October 2018, winners of the Breakthrough Prize 2019 in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics were announced.The Breakthrough Prize 2019 in Fundamental Physics was awarded to Charles Kane and Eugene Mele from University of Pennsylvania “for new ideas about topology and symmetry in physics, leading to the prediction of a new class of materials that conduct electricity only on their surface.”