Interview with Artem Vasyukov, winner of the JINR Prize for Young Scientists and Specialists in 2025
– Please tell us a little about yourself: in which DLNP departments do you work, and what are the areas of your scientific/professional interest?
My scientific life is closely connected with JINR: I started working here back in 2017 as a student at MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), and since then I have been engaged in one of the most exciting tasks – data analysis in elementary particle physics. Currently, I am working as a junior researcher in the Department of Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy of the Department of Colliding Beams. The areas of my scientific interest are: spectroscopy of exotic hadrons, data analysis, and mathematical statistics in the context of high-energy physics.
– For which works was the prize awarded? Who nominated you for the prize?
The prize was awarded for the work dedicated to the search for tetraquark and pentaquark states in B-hadron decays in data from the ATLAS experiment, one of the four detectors located on the ring of the Large Hadron Collider. Specific features of this facility, such as the absence of a light hadron identification system, significantly complicate this work, as they lead to the presence of a large number of background processes. Despite this, we developed an analysis procedure that allows us to confirm with sufficient significance the contribution of pentaquark states in the decays of the $\Lambda_{b}$ baryon and to measure their parameters, including quantum numbers. These data will provide insight into the internal structure of these states. The results were presented at the 29th Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2025), where the report was noted as one of the best in the particle physics section, which became the formal reason for the nomination for this prize.
– Please tell us a little about your scientific and professional plans for 2026.
My main priority for 2026 will be preparation for defending my candidate dissertation, dedicated to the search and measurement of parameters of hidden-charm tetraquark states through amplitude analysis of B-meson decays. In parallel, our research group will continue the search for and study of pentaquark states using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Another important area of my work is participation in the development of the SPD (NICA) detector model.
