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

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

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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⁻

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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 Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transconti ...

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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 CERN's Large Hadron Collider, providing equipment including beamline magnets.

Directors of the Institute

* Gersh Budker (1959-1977) *

Alexander N. Skrinsky Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky (Скринский, Александр Николаевич) (born 15 January 1936) is a Russian nuclear physicist. He was born in Orenburg and was educated at the high school in the city of Gorky and then at the ...

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

List of Scientists associated with this institute

Arkady Vainshtein Arkady Vainshtein (russian: Аркáдий Иóсифович Вайнштéйн; 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 theor ...

Iosif Khriplovich Iosif Benzionovich Khriplovich () (born 1937) is a Russian theoretical physicist who has made deep contributions in quantum field theory, atomic physics, and general relativity. He is a Chief Researcher at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Phys ...

References

External links

Budker Institute's homepage
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