The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of

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. It is located in the Siberian town

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, 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 Academician Budker. 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,A. N. Skrinsly
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. the first particle accelerator in the

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which collided two beams of particles, just a few months after the ADA collider became operational at the Frascati National Laboratories in

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in February 1961.Carlo Bernardini,
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". The BINP now employs over 3000 people, and hosts several research groups and facilities.

Active facilities

*VEPP-4 - e⁺e⁻ collider for the energy range 2E_beam up to 12 GeV **KEDR - detector for

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at VEPP-4 **ROKK-1 - facility for experiments with high energy polarized gamma-ray beams at VEPP-4 *

VEPP-2000 VEPP-2000 () is an upgrade of the former VEPP-2M electron-positron collider (particle accelerator) at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) in Novosibirsk, Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сиби ...

- e⁺e⁻ collider for the energy range 2E_beam=0.4-2.0 GeV ** SND - Spherical Neutral Detector for

experiments at VEPP-2000 **CMD-3 - Creogenic Magnetic Detector for particle physics experiments at VEPP-2000 *Electron cooling experiments *Plasma physics experiments **GOL3 - long open

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** GDL - gas-dynamic plasma trap *Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre **NovoFEL - Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser based on 4-turn ERL *BNCT – accelerator-based neutron source for boron neutron capture cancer therapy experiments

Participation in international projects

From 1993 to 2001, BINP contributed toward the construction of

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, providing equipment including beamline magnets.

Directors of the Institute

* Gersh Budker (1959-1977) * Alexander N. Skrinsky (1977-2015) *Pavel V. Logatchov (2015-)

List of Scientists associated with this institute

* Arkady Vainshtein * Iosif Khriplovich

References

External links

Budker Institute's homepage
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