Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (Russian: Объединённый институт ядерных исследований, ОИЯИ), in Dubna, Moscow Oblast (120 km north of Moscow), Russia, is an international research centre for nuclear sciences, with 5500 staff members, 1200 researchers including 1000 Ph.D.s from eighteen member states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, China,[1][2] Cuba, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam) as well as some eminent scientists from UNESCO, CERN, CLAF, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

The Institute has seven laboratories, each with its own specialisation: theoretical physics, high energy physics (particle physics), heavy ion physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear reactions, neutron physics, and information technology. The institute has a division to study radiation and radiobiological research and other ad hoc experimental physics experiments.

Principal research instruments include a nuclotron superconductive particle accelerator (particle energy: 7 GeV), three isochronic cyclotrons (120, 145, 650 MeV), a phasotron (680 MeV) and a synchrophasotron (4 GeV). The site has a neutron fast-pulse reactor (1500MW pulse) with nineteen associated instruments receiving neutron beams.

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Founding

The agreement on the establishment of JINR was signed on March 26, 1956 in Moscow, with Wang Ganchang and Vladimir Veksler among the founders.[3]

The institute was established on the basis of two research institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences: the Institute for Nuclear Problems and the Electrophysical Laboratory.

Although the first research instrument was built at Dubna in 1947, it was not until the creation of CERN in 1954 that a countervailing group from the West was created—JINR.

Structure

The JINR has eight laboratories and University Centre:

Experimental Physics workshops are also parts of the Institute.

Fields of research

The main fields of the Institute's research are:

Discoveries

More than 40 major discoveries have been made.

Elements discovered at JINR: rutherfordium (1964), nobelium (1966), dubnium (1968), seaborgium (1974), bohrium (1976), ununquadium (Island of stability, 1999), ununhexium (2001), ununtrium (2004), ununpentium (2004), ununoctium (2006), ununseptium (2010).

JINR Prize

In 1961 the JINR Prizes were instituted.

A group of physicists headed by Wang Ganchang, deputy director from 1958 to 1960 and the Soviet Professor Vladimir Veksler was awarded the first prize for the discovery of antisigma-minus hyperon. The experimental group led by Professor Wang Ganchang, analysed more than 40,000 photographs which recorded tens of thousands of nuclear interactions taken in the propane bubble chamber, produced by the 10 GeV synchrophasotron used to bombard a target forming high energy mesons, was the first to discover the anti-sigma minus hyperon particles (反西格马负超子) on March 9, 1959:[5]
\pi^- %2B C\to \bar\Sigma^- %2B K^0 %2B \bar K^0 %2B K^- %2B p^%2B %2B \pi^%2B %2B \pi^- %2B \hbox{nucleus recoil}
The discovery of this new unstable antiparticle which decays in (1.18±0.07)·10−10 s into an antineutron and a negative pion was announced in September of that year:[6]
\bar\Sigma^-\to \bar n^0 %2B \pi^-
No-one doubted at the time that this particle was elementary, but a few years later, this hyperon, the proton, the neutron, the pion and other hadrons had lost their status of elementary particles as they turned out to be complex particles too consisting of quarks and antiquarks.

Directors

References

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  2. ^ "历任所长". 高能物理研究所网. 2007-01-25. http://www.ihep.ac.cn/gaikuang/lirenSZ/. Retrieved August 2, 2008. 
  3. ^ "International Intergovermental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research" (PDF). Laboratory of High Energies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. July 18, 2008. http://newuc.jinr.ru/img_sections/file/pract08/30.06/JINR-eng-2008.pdf. Retrieved August 12, 2008. 
  4. ^ Glanz, James (April 6, 2010). "Scientists Discover Heavy New Element". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/science/07element.html?hp. 
  5. ^ "50thAnniversary of the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research" (PDF). Laboratory of High Energies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. October 27, 2003. http://lhe.jinr.ru/StaraLesna2003/pdf/malakh.pdf. Retrieved August 11, 2008. 
  6. ^ "王淦昌的科学贡献". 电动力学网络教程. 2006-06-01. http://class.htu.cn/diandonglixue/physics/wangganchang.htm. Retrieved August 4, 2008. 

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