Institute for High Energy Physics
Институт физики высоких энергий | |
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| Established | 1963 |
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| Research type | High energy physics and particle physics |
| Director | Professor Nikolai E. Tyurin |
| Location | Protvino, Russia 54°52′04″N 37°12′11″E / 54.8678°N 37.2030°E |
| Website | www.ihep.ru |
State Research Center – Institute for High Energy Physics (Russian: Институт физики высоких энергий) (known in its acronym IHEP) is a research organisation in Protvino (near Moscow, Moscow Oblast), Russia. It was established in 1963.[1]
IHEP signed an agreement concerning scientific and technical co-operation between CERN and the State Committee of the USSR on the Utilization of Atomic Energy in 1967. CERN director-generals Victor Weisskopf and Bernard Gregory played a central role in establishing IHEP's international collaboration with CERN.[2]
The institute is known for the particle accelerator U-70 synchrotron launched in 1967 with the maximum proton energy of 70 GeV, which had the largest proton energy in the world for five years.[2]
The first director of the institute from 1963 to 1974 was Anatoly Logunov. From 1974 to 1993, professor Lev Solovyov (Russian: Лев Дмитриевич Соловьев) served as the director of the institute.[3] A professor, Nikolai E. Tyurin has been the director of the institute since 2003.[4]
In 1978, a scientist of the institute, Anatoli Bugorski, was irradiated by an extreme dose of proton beam. His demise was deemed inevitable as the doctors believed he had received a dosage far in excess of what could be considered fatal. However, he survived the accident and continued to work in the institute.[5]
In 2022, the institute was put onto the US and EU sanction lists in the context of Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6]
See also
[edit]- UNK proton accelerator, a powerful accelerator that was planned to be built at Protvino but was not built after the collapse of the Soviet Union
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, another Russian particle physics laboratory in Novosibirsk
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, another Russian particle physics laboratory in the vicinity of Moscow; located in Moscow proper
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, international particle physics laboratory in the vicinity of Moscow; located north of Moscow
- OKA (experiment)
References
[edit]- ↑ ИФВЭ, История [IHEP, history] (in Russian).
- 1 2 Nikolai Tyurin (1 November 2003). "Forty years of high-energy physics in Protvino". CERN Courier. Retrieved 17 November 2007.
- ↑ Ушёл в вечность Лев Дмитриевич Соловьёв [Lev Dmitrievich Solovyov passed away] (in Russian). Обсуждение на LiveInternet – Российский Сервис Онлайн-Дневников.
- ↑ О профессорах кафедры – Тюрин Николай Евгеньевич [About professors of the department – Tyurin Nikolai Evgenievich] (in Russian). "Кафедра квантовой теории и физики высоких энергий" [Department of quantum theory and high energy physics]. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ Gessen, Masha. "The Future Ruins of the Nuclear Age". WIRED. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ↑ "Institute of High Energy Physics". Open Sanctions.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- IHEP publications
- Extensive photographs of remnants of Hadron Collider many years after abandonment
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- Particle accelerators
- Particle physics facilities
- Research institutes in the Soviet Union
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- 1963 establishments in the Soviet Union
- Nuclear research institutes in Russia
- Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
- Research institutes established in 1963
- Institutes associated with CERN