XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 8-12 December 2014

Science Collaboration with JINR, Dubna, Russia

Igor Meshkov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna, Russia

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JINR is located in Dubna-town that is situated in 120 km to North from Moscow on the river-bank of – - one of the greatest rivers of Russia.

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Very Beginning… 5.5 Centuries ago 1466 Dubna Exploration on Earth 1472 x Moscow Cambay Afanasy Nikitin Kiev Merchant from Tver-city 3 years Voyage to Kafa India () Trabzon 1466 – 1472 (178 years after Marco Polo) Sari

“Voyage Beyond Ormuz Three Seas” page 1 Travel diary by Cambay Afanasy Nikitin

Saved in Tsar’s office in Moscow (1475) Found by Nikolai Karamzin in 1818 and have been published. 3 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014

XXth Century Exploration in Space

2 April 1984 – joint indo- soviet crew reached by spaceship “Soyuz T-11” the Sulyut-7 Orbital Station and spent aboard the Station 7 days 21 hours and 40 minutes.

Rakesh Sharma – the Cosmonaut-Researcher, The crew: Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Malyshev - the Ship's Commander Gennady Strekalov – the Flight Engineer Rakesh Sharma – the Cosmonaut-Researcher 4 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 INTERNATIONAL INTERGOVERNMANTAL ORGANIZATION JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH The JINR unites presently 18 member-states

Armenia Azerbaijan and 6 associated Belarus members Bulgaria (agreements are Cuba Czech Republic signed on the Georgia governmental level): Kazakhstan Egypt D. P. Republic of Korea Germany Moldova Mongolia Hungary Poland Italy Romania Resp. South Africa Russian Federation Slovakia Serbia Ukraine Uzbekistan Vietnam Agreements with Brazil, India, , Tajikistan, France are in progress. (Do note the names of the BRICS states have red capital letters)

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Dzhelepov Laboratory Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nuclear Problems Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics

Flerov Laboratory of Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics Nuclear Reactions Laboratory of Information Technologies Laboratory of Radiation Biology

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Nuclotron-М - superconducting ion and polarized particle accelerator (NICA project - ion collider) Physics of relativistic heavy ions, high energy spin physics Applied research

Cyclotron complex U400, U400M, DRIBS Acceleration of heavy ions up to 50 МeV/u Synthesis of superheavy elements Applied research Pulsed reactor IBR-2М(1016 neutrons/cm2sec) Condensed matter physics Source of resonance neutrons IREN (1013 n/sec) Nuclear physics with neutrons, applied research Synchrocyclotron Phasotron 2 μА proton beam at the energy of 660 МeV Complex for Hadron Therapy Applied research

7 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 JINR – Multidisciplinary Institution Scientific Subjects and Research Activities Theoretical physics Particle physics Nuclear physics Condensed matter physics Particle beam physics and accelerator technology Radiobiology Medicine (Hadron therapy) Information technology Applied research: Hadron accelerator and neutron based technologies Educational programs

8 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 India – JINR Collaboration Scientific contacts of Dubna physicists and their Indian colleagues are being performed within 9 research topics:

Theoretical Physics - 3 themes Particle Physics and Relativistic Nuclear Physics - 4 themes Nuclear Physics - 1 theme Networking, Computing, Computational Physics - 1theme

Indian JINR partners – 7 research organizations and 5 universities:

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU, Aligarh); Institute of Physics (IOP, Bhubaneswar); University of Jammu (Univ., Jammu); University of Rajasthan (Univ., Jaipur); S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (BNC, Calcutta); Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP, Calcutta); Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre of the Department of Atomic Energy (VECC, Calcutta); Manipal University (MU, Manipal); Bhabha Atomic Research Centre of the Department of Atomic Energy (BARC, ); Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai); Panjab University (PU, Chandigarh); Inter-University Accelerator (IUCAA, Pune). 9 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 India – JINR Collaboration 16-20 June 2014 India-JINR Forum «Frontiers in Nuclear, Elementary Particle and Condensed Matter Physics» Participants: more than 60 leading researchers JINR and Member States and 20 Indian scientists

There were plenary meetings and parallel workshops in the Laboratories: VBLHEP, BLTP, FLNR, FLNP, DLNP where 57 talks were presented.

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Potential for Cooperation India – JINR Collaboration Between India and JINR Major Indian Universities and (Minutes of the Forum) Research Centers for particle, nuclear and condensed matter physics were represented at the Forum.

11 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 India – JINR Collaboration Minutes of the India-JINR Forum Theoretical and mathematical physics (BLTP) Nuclear reactions and spectroscopy, heavy ion physics (FLNR) Neutrino physics (DLNP: JINR Projects & India-based Neutrino Observatory) Neutron applications in condensed matter and nuclear physics (FLNP: IBR-2 and spectromrter complex) High energy physics and relativistic heavy ion physics (VBLHEP: NICA-MPD/SPD) Information technologies (LIT: GRID) Education (The University Center of JINR) Besides the listed topics, the participants mentioned the opportunities to cooperate in radiation biology, nanotechnologies, applied researches.

12 India-JINR Science Collaboration I.Meshkov XXI DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium IIT Guwahati 8-12 December 2014 India – JINR Collaboration Progress and Our Hopes: AGREEMENT between the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of Republic of India has been approved by The Committee of Plenipotentiaries of JINR 21 November 2014 and will be ready for submission to the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of India soon. Completion of the procedure of the Agreement signing will create a base for active collaboration of Indian Institutions with JINR. We are looking forward for significant expansion of the collaboration. to From Volga Brahmaputra

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