“Lifehacks of Some Use for a Scientist”

The Group of Scientific Communication of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems launches a series of training seminars “Lifehacks of Some Use for a Scientist”. The seminars will be held at the DLNP conference hall on Fridays at 11:00 am. Specialists from different fields of knowledge will be talking about scientometric indicators and their correct use, about the basics of design of posters and presentations, how to get prepared for public speaking, how to overcome anxiety in front of the audience. And also, about some secrets of self-editing, some features of the English scientific literature…  

Aleksandr Kolesnikov and Liudmila Kolupaeva Are the Winners of the Competition for the Prize of the Governor of the Moscow Region

We heartily congratulate Aleksandr Kolesnikov and Liudmila Kolupaeva, young researchers from our laboratory, on being awarded the 2022 Prize of the Governor of the Moscow Region intended for early-career scientists engaged in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and innovations! We are proud of them and wish them new scientific achievements!  

All-Russian Festival NAUKA 0+ Will Open in Moscow this Weekend

From 7 to 9 October, the All-Russian Festival NAUKA 0+ will be held in Moscow. The festival is aimed at explaining in a clear and simple way what science is, what scientists do, how scientific search improves the quality of life, and what prospects it opens for a modern society. The festival is intended to communicate science to a wide audience and to present the most recent scientific achievements. The slogan of the 2022 festival is “Creating Future”.  

Gifted Young Scientists Convened near Moscow for ITaS’22

From 2 to 6 October 2022, the 46th interdisciplinary conference “Information Technologies and Systems” (ITaS) took place in the park hotel Ognikovo located in the Istrinsky District of the Moscow Region. It was organized by the A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IITP RAS).

Rosatom Delivered Unique Samples of Isotope Zr-96

Unique Zr-96 isotope samples were delivered to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) by the Izotop company, an integrator of the Rosatom State Corporation in the field of turnover and promotion of isotope products. Isotopes Zr-96 produced by the PO EHZ company (Rosatom’s plant) will be used in investigations of fundamental properties of neutrinos.  

Baikal Sponges as Bioindicators of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Lake

Scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna), along with specialists from the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LI SB RAS, Irkutsk) and from the University of Bucharest (Romania), have examined elemental composition of Baikal sponges collected in areas with different anthropogenic load. It turned out that sponges can be successfully used as bioindicators of toxic element pollution in Lake Baikal. The results were published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Memorable Dates in the DLNP History: 22 August 2022 marks the 109th birthday of Bruno Pontecorvo

On 22 August 2022, it is the 109th birthday of the Academician Bruno Pontecorvo, an outstanding scientist, one of the founders of neutrino physics and neutrino astronomy. Bruno Pontecorvo worked at the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems for over forty years.

Wishing Vladimir Viktorovich Glagolev happy birthday!

Today, on 23 August 2022, Vladimir Viktorovich Glagolev, a doctor of physics and mathematics, a DLNP Deputy Director of Science, celebrates his 60th birthday. Vladimir Viktorovich started his career at the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (LNP) in 1985 after graduating from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. While working at LNP, V. V. Glagolev took part in preparing and performing experiments at the GIPERON facility, in developing and testing wide-gap drift chambers, the ionization-coordinate spectrometer, and in measuring the form factor of the weak decay of the charged K-meson. Along with his colleagues, he prepared the MARS-MChS project for experiments in B-physics at the Accelerating-Storage Complex in Protvino. While being at SSC-Lab, he developed the central calorimeter of the SDC facility for experiments on the supercollider in Dallas.

Oleg Karamyshev about New Patent for Invention “Compact Superconducting Cyclotron for Proton Therapy Using Beams with Ultrahigh Dose Rate (FLASH)”

The head of the Sector of Theory and Calculation of New Accelerators of the DLNP Experimental Department of New Accelerators Oleg Karamyshev, a candidate of physics and mathematics, is talking about a new patent for the invention “Compact superconducting cyclotron for proton therapy using beams with the ultrahigh dose rate (FLASH)”. The authors of the patent are O. V. Karamyshev, G. A. Karamysheva, I. D. Lyapin, V. A. Malinin, D. V. Popov, G. V. Trubnikov, G. D. Shirkov, S. G. Shirkov. The invention was patented on 14 July 2022.

Sergey Nikolaevich Dolya about New Patent for Invention “Technique for Rapid Analysis of Inhibition of Living Protein Molecules”

Sergey Nikolaevich Dolya, a senior research scientist of the DLNP Experimental Department of New Accelerators, candidate of physics and mathematics, is talking about his new patent for the invention “Technique for rapid analysis of inhibition of living protein molecules”. The invention was patented on 18 July 2022.

“Ice-Breaker of Discoveries”: Educational Expedition to the North Pole

The educational expedition to the North Pole “Ice-breaker of discoveries” initiated by the Rosatom State Corporation and the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “Bolshaya Peremena” has finished. Seventy high-school students, the winners of the 2021 Bolshaya Peremena Competition, were on board. Mark Shirchenko, candidate of physics and mathematics, a senior research scientist of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (DLNP) of JINR was involved in the expedition. The DLNP Group of Scientific Communication asked Mark some questions about this voyage.

OPERA ― 20 Years Later

This year marks a moment happened exactly 20 years ago when JINR scientists joined the tau neutrino search within the international OPERA collaboration. The experiment of the same name was proposed in 1998 with an aim to prove the existence of νμ ↔ ντ oscillations. The flux of muon neutrinos produced in interactions of protons with the target at CERN was directed to the detector for tau neutrino registration at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory located in Italy, 730 km away from Geneva. This study was relevant because of the lack of the direct evidence of muon neutrinos transforming into tau neutrinos.