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

nuclear physics Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies th ...

in Russia. It is located in the

Siberian Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states si ...

town

Akademgorodok Akademgorodok ( rus, Академгородок, p=ɐkəˌdʲemɡərɐˈdok, "Academic Town") is a part of the Sovetsky City District, Novosibirsk, Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, located south of the city center and abou ...

, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by

Gersh Budker Gersh Itskovich Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер), also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker (1 May 1918 – 4 July 1977), was a Soviet physicist born in Murafa in Ukrainian People's Republic (now in Ukraine), specialized in nuclear physi ...

in 1959. Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of 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 Plasma () is a state of matter characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons. It is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including th ...

) and particle physics. In 1961 the institute began building VEP-1,A. N. Skrinsly
"Accelerator field development at Novosibirsk (history, status, prospects)"
, Particle Accelerator Conference, Proceedings of the 1995.V. N. Baier, "Forty years of acting electron-positron colliders"
arXiv:hep-ph/0611201PDF

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. the first

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in the

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which collided two beams of particles, just a few months after the

ADA collider ADA (short for Anello Di Accumulazione, also stylized as AdA) was one of the first Italian particle accelerators and the first-ever electron–positron particle collider, measuring approximately in diameter and designed to store beams of 250 MeV. ...

became operational at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy in February 1961.Carlo Bernardini,
AdA: The First Electron-Positron Collider
". The BINP employs over 3000 people, and hosts research groups and facilities.

Active facilities

*VEPP-4 – e⁺e⁻

collider A collider is a type of particle accelerator that brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. Compared to other particle accelerators in which the moving particles collide with a stationary matter target, collid ...

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, Russia. References See also *VEPP-5 VEPP-5 or Colliding Electron-Positron ...

– e⁺e⁻

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

plasma trap Plasma () is a state of matter characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons. It is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including the ...

** 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

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists, ...

, providing equipment including beamline magnets.

Directors of the Institute

(1959–1977) *

Alexander N. Skrinsky Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky (; born 15 January 1936) is a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist. Biography He was born in Orenburg and was educated at the high school in the city of Gorky and then at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. ...

(1977–2015) *Pavel V. Logatchov (2015–)

List of Scientists associated with this institute

Arkady Vainshtein Arkady Vainshtein (; born 24 February 1942) is a Russian and American Professor Emeritus of Theoretical physics who was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2005) and Sakurai Prize (1999) for theoretical physics. Biography Vainshtein was born on 24 Februar ...

Iosif Khriplovich Iosif Benzionovich Khriplovich (; 23 January 1937 – 26 September 2024) was a Russian theoretical physicist who made profound contributions to quantum field theory, atomic physics, and general relativity. Biography Khriplovich was a Chief Resear ...

References

External links

Budker Institute's homepage
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