2020 JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH JOI NT INS TI TU T E F O R N U C L E JINR A R R E S E A R C H DUBNA Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Phone: (+7-49621) 65-059 Fax: (+7-495) 632-78-80 E-mail: [email protected] Address: JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia Web http://www.jinr.ru Online version: http://wwwinfo.jinr.ru/publish/Reports/Reports_index.html ISBN 978-5-9530-0553-1 © Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 2021 JOI NT INS TI TU T E F O R N U C L E A JINR R R E S E A R C H DUBNA JINR MEMBER STATES AGREEMENTS ON GOVERNMENTAL LEVEL ARE SIGNED WITH THE FOLLOWING STATES: JOI NT INS TI TU T E F O R N U C L E A JINR R R E S CONTENTS E A R C H DUBNA INTRODUCTION . 5 GOVERNING AND ADVISORY BODIES OF JINR Activities of JINR Governing and Advisory Bodies. 11 Prizes and Grants .................................................... 37 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION Collaboration in Science and Technology. 43 RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES OF JINR Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics ............................83 Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics .....................93 Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems .............................. 108 Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions ................................. 116 Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics ................................... 124 Laboratory of Information Technologies ................................. 137 Laboratory of Radiation Biology ....................................... 151 University Centre .................................................... 158 CENTRAL SERVICES Publishing Department ............................................... 187 Science and Technology Library .......................................189 Licensing and Intellectual Property Department . 191 ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES Financial Activities. 195 Staff ............................................................... 196 The year 2020 became the time of hard- Before arriving at Dubna the case with the ship for all of us; the coronavirus infection magnet was transported by sea from the port affected each one, but in the conditions of the of Genoa (Italy) to St. Petersburg. The cryostat COVID-19 pandemic the scientific community with superconducting wiring of the magnet for of JINR continued the implementation of the the MPD detector was designed by Russian sci- planned issues. The pace of activities to develop entists (specialists from JINR and SDPC “Neva- the systems of the NICA collider was not slowed Magnit”) and manufactured in Italy by ASG Su- down. The installation of two new clusters perconductors, one of the world’s few producers of the Baikal neutrino telescope allowed the of the unique equipment for large-scale scientific deep-water detector to reach the effective vo- research projects. lume of 0.35 km3, which made Baikal-GVD one On 20 November, Chairman of the RF Gov- of the world’s three largest telescopes in terms ernment M. Mishustin made the technological of effective area and volume for observation of start-up of the superconducting Booster syn- natural neutrino fluxes and the largest telescope chrotron (Booster), one of the blocks of the in the Northern Hemisphere. The supercom- international megascience project “NICA Com- puter “Govorun” occupied the 22nd position in plex”. Single-charged helium ions were injected the world ranking of the highest productive into the Booster and stable beam circulation data storage systems of the HPC class. The was obtained. The achieved bright result is the user programme of the research nuclear facility completion of long-standing joint work of the IBR-2 continued to be implemented. The first accelerator physicists and engineers of JINR in experiment on the synthesis of moscovium iso- cooperation with partners from NPI SB RAS, topes was started at the Factory of Superheavy INR RAS, ITEP, IHEP NRC KI, and many Elements. Further development of international other Russian and foreign organizations. cooperationwasaimedatdeepeningtheties At the end of December, the check assembly with partner scientific research organizations, of the magnetic core of the solenoid magnet integration of JINR into the global research of the experimental facility MPD of the NICA infrastructure and attracting of young staff. All complex was successfully completed — the final through the year the workout and full discussion upper block was installed. The magnet yoke — of the main trends were held of the strategic 13 blocks, as well as two supporting rings, were plan of JINR development, including the devel- assembled with ultimate accuracy. A collabo- opment of the system of indices for monitoring ration of over 500 scientists from 40 scientific the accomplishment of the strategic plan. centres of five continents takes an active part Today we can state with satisfaction that the in developing detector systems of MPD and tough tasks in the conditions of the pandemic preparation of experimental research at it. of the coronavirus infection did not hinder the Another important result is the workout and JINR community to obtain important results in application of the new experimental method to implementation of the flagship projects of JINR. study the inner structure of the atomic nucleus The key element of the research facility and neutron stars in the BM@N experiment MPD was successfully transported and delivered that registered for the first time all products of to the construction site of the NICA project. the reaction in knocking out nucleons and nu- 5 cleon pairs from atomic nuclei and opened new that allowed bigger effectiveness and scalability scientific prospects for research of the nucleus of the complex. Integration of all computer structure. resources of the Institute was accomplished on First results were obtained at the accelerator the basis of the DIRAC platform as an important complex “The Factory of Superheavy Elements” step in the development of distributed data pro- on the synthesis of isotopes of element 115 cessing at JINR. It is an important contribution (moscovium) in the reaction of interaction of to the development of the digital platform for ions of calcium-48 and americium-243. It gave megascience projects. the start to the unique programme of JINR in Research in theoretical physics has tradi- studying nuclear-physical and chemical proper- tionally been focused both on supporting the ties of superheavy elements scheduled for years. JINR experimental programme and on indepen- Soon experiments will be conducted on the syn- dent theoretical developments. In many areas, thesis of new elements with atomic numbers 119 JINR theorists act as flagships of development and 120 — the first elements of period 8 of the and generators of ideas that determine the world Mendeleev Table. scientific agenda. Among the best achievements The 6th and 7th clusters of the optical mo- over the past year, one can note the determi- dules of the deep-water neutrino telescope of nation of the fundamental constants of quantum the cubic-kilometer scale Baikal-GVD, deve- electrodynamics with record precision based on loped jointly with scientists from INR RAS the study of HD+ molecular ions, the investiga- (Troitsk) in Lake Baikal, were deployed and tion of the effect of nuclear temperature on the putintooperation.Itiswell-knownthatthe process of core-collapse supernova explosions, Baikal-GVD telescope is a flagship project of the development of a statistical method for gen- the JINR neutrino programme and is considered erating fluorinated graphene structures and anal- as a basic facility of the Institute. ysis of their properties, lattice simulations for In 2020, the Institute celebrated 60 years studying characteristics of rotating quark–gluon since the launch of the first pulsed fast neu- matter, the study of the asymmetry of the elec- tron reactor IBR, the only reactor in the world tron–positron pair production in the interaction that works with variable level of criticality. of a high-energy photon with a polarized laser In the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, pulse, the discovery of the mechanism of stag- the stable operation of the IBR-2 reactor for gered radiative decay of long-lived oscillating physics experiments under the user programme states, and many others. allowed the accomplishment of 8 of the planned The programme of research in space radio- 10 cycles. Considerable progress was achieved biology with the Nuclotron beams was actively in designing of a new neutron pulsed source of developed; it attracts much interest in con- the 4th generation in collaboration with leading nection with an opportunity to study radiation scientific organizations, in particular, with those damage in the structure and functions of the of Rosatom. After a number of technological central nervous system in animals, especially systems were seriously upgraded, the IREN fa- in primates. New experimental and theoretical cility started its regular operation. data were obtained that revealed mechanisms of Uninterruptible operation was organized of forming and repair of DNA radiation damage in the net and information-computer infrastructure cell cultures of the nervous system, and estima- oftheInstitute,aswellasofallservices,includ- tions were conducted for radiation pressure and ing videoconference communications. Consider- risks for spacemen. In the same list are studies able results were obtained in the development in astrobiology that revealed new mechanisms of of the unique Multifunctional Information and the synthesis of