Workshop on Physics and Computing in the ATLAS Experiment

A regular All-Russian Workshop on Physics and Computing in the ATLAS Experiment was held on 16–17 October 2018. Apart from JINR scientists, researchers from institutes and universities of Moscow, Protvino, Tomsk, and others participated in the workshop. Discussions embraced a wide range of investigations related both to the search for new physics and the Higgs boson and to the Standard Model and heavy quark physics. The participants spoke about achievements in solution of topical computing problems and in ATLAS upgrade activities.  

Technogenics (season 3, episode 3) - Telescope without a telescope

    Discovery Channel Russia has shown an episode of the Technogenics series, part of which was shot in our laboratory at the beginning of this August. .

DLNP at the All-Russian Science Festival NAUKA0+ 2018

Today, the All-Russian Science Festival NAUKA0+ has opened in Moscow and will continue till 14 October. This 13th festival will be the largest of all previous ones. The festival is intended for a very wide audience and aimed at explaining in lay language what scientists do, how scientific research improves quality of life, and what prospects it opens up.  The main events will be held in the Fundamental Library and Shuvalov Building of Moscow State University and in the Expo Centre in Krasnaya Presnya. The JINR exposition in the Fundamental Library includes two mock-ups from our laboratory: the DLNP Medico-Technical Complex (JINR MTC) for proton therapy of tumours and the deep water neutrino telescope for the Baikal experiment.   

Seminar by Aleksei Gus’kov based on his doctoral dissertation, 11 October 2018

    The COMPASS facility using the secondary beam of CERN’s SPS is a universal tool for testing basic principles of QCD in the low-energy region. For example, it allowed charged pion polarizabilities to be measured with the world’s highest accuracy in the radiative scattering of the beam pion with the momentum of 190 GeV/c in the Coulomb field of the target nucleus.  

General Laboratory Seminar by I.R. Boiko, 10 October 2018

    Igor Boiko reviewed the current status of the experimental and theoretical determination of the anomalous muon magnetic moment and spoke about the possibility of further increasing its determination accuracy.

Current VLVnT-2018 schedule

The International Workshop on Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT-2018) will continue at the JINR International Conference Hall until 4 October 2018.  Current schedule of the workshop. Everyone who is interested in cosmic rays, neutrino oscillations, neutrino astronomy, and dark matter research and is invited. Topical problems of oceanology, limnology, and glaciology will be discussed at the workshop.   

International Workshop on Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes VLVnT-2018

On 1–4 October 2018, the International Workshop on Very Large Neutrino Telescopes  VLVnT-2018 will be held at the JINR International Conference Hall. The preliminary programme is available on the conference site.  Everyone interested is invited!  

General Laboratory Seminar by Renat Sadykov, 26 September 2018

    Renat Sadykov speaks about his general laboratory seminar on the theoretical support of experiments at high-energy colliders. 

Our ambassadors in Kamchatka!

On 20–24 September 2018, the first visit of the JINR delegation to Kamchatka took place. D.V. Naumov and I.P. Ivanov (DLNP, JINR) negotiated establishment of scientific and education cooperation with the Kamchatka Krai.   The first practical step could be a new Kamchatka School on Particle Physics and Astrophysics in the autumn 2019, an analogue to the Baikal School that proved to be utterly successful.   In the Kamchatka State University named after Vitus Bering and in the children’s physico-mathematical school the guests from JINR gave talks on the JINR research and education programmes, Baikal Neutrino Telescope, and discovery of gravitational waves. 

Accounting seminar by Dmitry Selivanov (PSU)

Another seminar was held within the JINR Summer Student Programme today. Dmitry Selivanov (St. Petersburg State University, supervisors Konstantin Treskov and Maksim Gonchar) spoke about the reconstruction of the primary interaction vertex in the JUNO central detector using neural networks. Two methods for solution of this problem are proposed, one using a convolutional neural network and the other using a direct-propagation neural network. 

Vadim Aleksandrovich Bednyakov re-elected as DLNP Director for the second term

Professor V.A. Bednyakov was re-elected as DLNP Director for the second term at the 124th session of the JINR Scientific Council on 20 September 2018. We congratulate Vadim Aleksandrovich on being elected to holding the position of highest authority at our laboratory and wish him good health and creative achievements!  

General Laboratory Seminar by M.V. Lyablin, 20 September 2018

    Mikhail Vasil’evich Lyablin speaks about his general laboratory seminar “Effect of a decrease in the time for restoration of the liquid surface horizontality in the Precision Laser Inclinometer”.