Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Formation1959
Type Learned society
Headquarters Academician Lavrentyev Avenue, Novosibirsk , Akademgorodok , Novosibirsk Oblast ,Russia
Location
  • Russia
Coordinates 54°50′56″N83°06′40″E / 54.84875°N 83.11102°E / 54.84875; 83.11102
Membership3,000
Official language
Russian
Director
Pavel V. Logatchov
Website inp.nsk.su (in Russian)
KEDR detector at VEPP-4M electron-positron collider Kedr-detector-inp-0811.jpg
KEDR detector at VEPP-4M electron-positron collider
Plasma physics facility GDL Gas Dynamic Trap Overhead.jpg
Plasma physics facility GDL

The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by Gersh Budker in 1959. Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of Budker.

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Despite its name, the centre was not involved either with military atomic science or nuclear reactors instead, its concentration was on high-energy physics (particularly plasma physics) and particle physics. In 1961 the institute began building VEP-1, [1] [2] the first particle accelerator in the Soviet Union which collided two beams of particles, just a few months after the ADA collider became operational at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy in February 1961. [3] The BINP employs over 3000 people, and hosts research groups and facilities.

In July 2023, the institute was put onto the USA sanction list in the context of Russian invasion of Ukraine. [4]

Active facilities

Participation in international projects

From 1993 to 2001, BINP contributed toward the construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, providing equipment including beamline magnets. [5] [6]

Directors of the Institute

List of Scientists associated with this institute

See also

References

  1. A. N. Skrinsly, "Accelerator field development at Novosibirsk (history, status, prospects)" Archived 2011-10-31 at the Wayback Machine , Particle Accelerator Conference, Proceedings of the 1995.
  2. V. N. Baier, "Forty years of acting electron-positron colliders", arXiv:hep-ph/0611201 (PDF | PS).
  3. Carlo Bernardini, "AdA: The First Electron-Positron Collider Archived 2015-10-27 at the Wayback Machine ".
  4. "Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics". Open Sanctions.
  5. "Last LHC magnets from Siberia reach CERN". CERN Courier. 28 August 2001. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  6. K.V. Zolotarev; A.M. Batrakov; S.V. Khruschev; G.N. Kulipanov; V.H. Lev; N.A. Mezentsev; E.G. Miginsky; V.A. Shkaruba; V.M. Syrovatin; V.M. Tsukanov; V.K. Zjurba (2004). "High Magnetic Field Superconducting Magnets Fabricated in Budker INP for SR Generation" (PDF). Proceedings of RuPAC XIX. Dubna, Russia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2017-07-10.