Seventh Lecture by Igor Ivanov “The atom from inside” from the Series “Time Scales: Travelling Deep into the Second with Historical Sketches”

Presentation Series of Educational Lectures by Igor Ivanov “Time Scales: Travelling Deep into the Second with Historical Sketches” 

Congratulations to Yulian Aramovich Budagov and Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyablin on Receiving a Patent!

The JINR Department of Licensing and Intellectual Property announces that on 16 October 2020 the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research got a patent for the invention “Device for measuring surface inclination angles”. The authors are Yulian Aramovich Budagov and Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyablin.  

Sixth Lecture by Igor Ivanov “Femtoworld” from the Series “Time Scales: Travelling Deep into the Second with Historical Sketches”

Scales of the world of atoms. Motion of electrons and light. Pump-probe method. The first picosecond of melting. Femtochemistry and femtobiology.

Fifth Lecture by Igor Ivanov “Nanoseconds and picoseconds” from the Series “Time Scales: Travelling Deep into the Second with Historical Sketches”

Molecular motion: Speed and time scale evaluation. Sonoluminescence. Protein folding. “Life” of positrons in a crystal.

Neutrino Geophysics at DLNP

Neutrino geophysics has evolved to a separate discipline not so long ago. This rapidly developing branch of science at the intersection of geology, geophysics and particle physics examines the Earth’s interior by observing antineutrino fluxes produced by the decay of radioactive elements in the Earth’s crust and mantel. The contribution of radioactive decays to the total heat release of the Earth (radiogenic heat) determines the heat history of the Earth and restricts its geophysical models.

Photography Exhibition “Baikal. Neutrino Hunters” by Bair Shaybonov in the Mir Culture Centre Goes On

The article about the photography exhibition by Bair Shaybonov “Baikal. Neutrino Hunters” was published in the JINR weekly newspaper “Dubna: Science, Community, Progress”. Do you want to enjoy amazing scenery of Baikal in winter? And to touch a glass sphere, an optical module to be submerged deep under the water? Visit the Exhibition Hall of the Mir Culture Centre where the photography exhibition “Baikal. Neutrino Hunters” has been recently launched. The photographer is a regular member of the International Baikal collaboration Bair Shaybonov. The exhibition is open till 30 October.

The Baikal School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics Got Underway

Today, the International Baikal School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics has been launched. The first lecture for students of the Faculty of Physics of Irkutsk State University and attendees connected via the Zoom platform was given by Nikolay Mikhailovich Budnev. The School will be held till 24 October that is why there are a lot of scientific discussions ahead. Join in!

Fourth Lecture by Igor Ivanov “Ultrasound and phononics" from the Series “Time Scales: Travelling Deep into the Second with Historical Sketches”

History of ultrasonic studies and hydroacoustics: from bats to the sonar. Ultrasound in medicine: diagnostics and therapy. Hypersound and phonons: the tools of modern phononics.

Konstantin Gusev "Double Beta Decay Study in the GERDA/LEGEND and SuperNEMO Experiments"

The seminar was dedicated to the GERDA and SuperNEMO projects designed to search mainly for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of different isotopes using various methods. The discovery of this process, which violates the lepton number, would mean that neutrino is a Majorana particle and prove the existence of New Physics beyond the Standard Model. The GERDA experiment and the first phase of LEGEND are located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. They search for the 0νββ decay of 76Ge and operate bare germanium detectors directly immersed in liquid argon.  

The Competition Announced for the Moscow Region Governor’s Prizes in Science, Technologies and Innovations for Commercialization of Scientific and (or) Scientific and Technological Results in 2020

The Moscow Region Government will award 10 Prizes of 1 million rubles each for achievements in commercialization of research and development in 2020. Citizens or a group of citizens of the Russian Federation, no more than 10 people, active in scientific and (or) scientific and technological fields can be nominated for the Governor's Prize. They should work at institutions registered in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and operating in the Moscow region or in separate divisions of institutions registered in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and operating in the Moscow region, or in organizations subordinate to the executive authorities of the Moscow region.  

Assembly and Tests of a New Dilution Cryostat in the Crystal Barrel Experiment at the ELSA Accelerator

Last year, in December, we already told you about the delivery of a cryostat for polarization experiments at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn. Scientists from the Section of Low Temperatures (DLNP, JINR) are involved in the Crystal Barrel experiment. They perform runs with the current polarized target based on the 3He/4He dilution cryostat. This polarized target is being created by concerted efforts of DLNP and two universities (in Mainz and Bonn) to conduct dual polarization experiments (beam+target). The cryostat for the target was designed and fabricated at the Section of Low Temperatures under the guidance of Candidate of Technical Sciences Yuri Andreevich Usov. Now, the manufacturing of a new dilution cryostat for the Crystal Barrel experiment is in full flow according to the contract between JINR and the University of Bonn. In the photo, Ivan Gorodnov and Anton Dolzhikov are assembling and testing the new dilution cryostat at the Cryogenic Laboratory of the University of Bonn.

Photography Exhibition “Baikal. Neutrino Hunters”

From 10 to 30 October 2020, the Exhibition Hall of the Mir Culture Centre will host the photography exhibition “Baikal. Neutrino Hunters” devoted to the 65th anniversary of JINR. The photographer Bair Shaybonov is a regular member of Baikal expeditions, senior researcher at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of JINR. The exhibition is open daily from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm. The entry is free.