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”. 

Forbes Magazine about the Muon g-2 experiment

It turns out that the American business magazine Forbeswrites not only about billionaires but also, for example, about the Muon g-2 experiment, in which our scientists also take part. 

General Laboratory Seminar by A.V. Gus’kov, 19 September 2018

Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Gus’kov speaks about the search for photoproduction of the charmonium-like state X(3872) in the COMPASS experiment and an indication of a new state X ̃ (3872).See the full version of the seminar here.  

General Laboratory Seminar by V.S. Kurbatov, 12 September 2018

    Vladimir Sergeevich Kurbatov speaks about his general laboratory seminar held at DLNP, where he reported the results of measuring differential cross sections for the reaction pp → {pp}sπ0, where {pp}s is the 1S0 state of two protons (diproton) with the excitation energy Epp<3 MeV. The measurements were performed at the ANKE facility of the COSY accelerator (Jülich, Germany) at 12 proton beam energies in the interval of 0.8 to 2.8 GeV. The angular range of the diproton in the centre-of-mass system was 0◦ < θpp ≤? 18◦, where θpp is the diproton angle.

JEMS-8 is a guest of our laboratory

The last day of the international training for scientific administrative personnel “JINR Experience for Member States and Partner Countries” began with a talk of D.V. Naumov about our laboratory at the DLNP conference hall. Among the training participants were officials and specialists from government offices and educational and scientific organizations of Bulgaria, Vietnam, Egypt, Italy, South Africa, and Botswana. During the training, they visited all seven JINR laboratories.   

General Laboratory Seminar by Dmitry Kostyunin, 5 September 2018

    Dmitry Kostyunin (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany) speaks about his general laboratory seminar at DLNP, where he reported the latest neutrino and cosmic ray physics news. See the full version of the seminar here.  

Results of searching for new resonances by the ATLAS collaboration

Recently the ATLAS collaboration has published the results of searching for new resonances in the decay channel into a Z, W, or Higgs boson and a photon. The Z, W, and Higgs bosons were reconstructed in the hadron decay channel. The search for the resonances was performed using the data on the proton–proton interactions at the cms energy of 13 TeV corresponding to 36.1 fb-1, which were collected during the operation of the ATLAS detector at the LHC over the period of 2016–2017.