The History of the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams

Now we have the section “The History of the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams” on our website. You can find here a detailed story about the Department, its employees, discoveries and studies told by Georgy Alexandrovich Chelkov.

The Experimental Department of Colliding Beams is one of the oldest at DLNP, and its history had begun even before JINR was established. Yu. D. Prokoshkin and V. I. Petrukhin stood at its origins. The Department widely cooperated with the Institute of High-Energy Physics (Protvino) and CERN. Today, it is involved in a number of projects: BESIII, COMPASS and others.