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Investigations of Neutron Nuclear Interactions
and Properties of the Neutron

Investigations of violations of fundamental symmetries
in neutron-nucleus interactions and related data

• Preparation and conducting an experiment on measurement of the T-odd effects in the fission of ²³³U on a beam of IBR-2 reactor.
  
  
• Conducting an experiment on measurement of the neutron paramagnetic resonance of the first kind in samples of titanium hydride TiH₂ in the polarized neutron energy range of 0.062-2.3 eV using the KOLKHIDA facility at the IBR-2 reactor.
  
  
• Measurement of the quaternary and search for the quinary fission using a spontaneous fission source ²⁵²Cf.
  
  
• Measurement of angular and energy neutron-gamma and neutron-neutron correlations in the inelastic neutron scattering and in (n,2n) reaction in the framework of the TANGRA project.
  
  
• Conducting the measurements of the ³⁵Cl(n,p) ³⁵S on resonance neutrons from the IREN facility.
  
  
• Measurements of (n,α ) reaction with Ni-60,61 isotopes for neutron energies E_n =4.5-6.5 MeV at the accelerator EG-4.5 of the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics of Peking University.
  

• Preparation of a project on measurement of the neutron lifetime on a beam of the IBR-2 reactor. Performing methodical measurements.
  
  
• Search for a constraint at a level of 10 ^{- 16} for the product of the coupling constants of the scalar and pseudoscalar axion-like interaction at distances of ~ 10 µm at the GRANIT spectrometer.
  
  
• Investigation of "small UCN heating" phenomena in the interaction of UCN with nanoparticles of different sizes to test predictions of the theoretical model.
  
  
• Manufacturing and testing of a setup to measure the UCN loss factor as a function of UCN energy at the energy range close to limit energy values.
  
  
• Preparation of the project of a new experimental setup for observation of neutron quantum tunneling.
  
  
• Conducting of measurements on neutron diffraction by surface ultrasonic waves.
  
  Applied and methodological research:
• Manufacturing and testing of a 2D position-sensitive detector.
  
  
• Development of a 32-channel neutron multiplicity detector system based on scintillation detectors.
  
  
• Manufacturing of two sections of the neutron multiplicity detector based on SNM-14D counters.
  
  
• Measurements of thin layers using methods of Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis, Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry and X-ray analysis for various materials at the EG-5 accelerator.
  
  
• Elemental and isotopic analysis of archaeological samples at the IREN facility using neutron activation method.
  
  
• Development of a 16-channel scintillation detector for neutron resonance capture analysis at the IREN facility.
  
  
• Development of the elemental analysis technique using the tagged neutron method and standard neutron sources with the help of HPGe detectors and NaI(Tl) and BGO scintillators.
  
  
• Carrying out of neutron activation analysis of environmental, geological, biological samples and novel materials at the IBR-2 reactor using the REGATA facility.
  
  
• Equipping with computers and modern software for the neutron activation analysis facility at INP (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Training of INP personnel on the basics of neutron activation analysis.
  Development of the IREN facility
  
• Replacement of the 2129 Thomson klystron of the second accelerating section for the E3730A klystron Toshiba.
  
  
• Providing the neutron beam time from IREN for physical experiments,

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