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.”

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.