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No. 47 (3886) 30 November, 2007

On 27-28 November, a session of the CP of the Governments of the JINR Member States was held, where the report of the Director of the Institute A.N.Sisakyan "On the activities of JINR in 2007 and the basic areas of the strategic development of the Institute" was presented and the results of the meeting of the JINR Finance Committee were reported by Committee Member D.I.Khubua (Georgia). The participants of the session learnt about the long-term plans for improving the main basic facilities of the Institute (IBR-2M, DRIBs-2, Nuclotron-M, completion of IREN-I) and the programme for developing a new NICA facility. In order to successfully develop a new accelerator project NICA/MPD, in order to concentrate human and financial resources on the implementation of this priority JINR programme, the Directorate of the Institute proposes to reorganize the LHE and LPP JINR into a single Laboratory of High Energy Physics named after V.I.Veksler and A.M.Baldin.

Anticipating the general discussion, A.A.Fursenko (at that time, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation - Ed.) noted: "Today, we heard a very important thing - the logic of survival that concerned many institutes involved in fundamental science, has been eliminated in Dubna. All the reports delivered today are aimed at developing and giving a new breath to Dubna as a centre that is and will be on a par with the world's leading centres."

Yu.A.Budagov and S.M.Sabirov with the first copy of a bimetallic sample from material sent from INPN (Italy). Photo by Yury TUMANOV

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The initiative of JINR to develop the International Linear Collider (ILC) in Dubna is widely known to the scientific community. It is supported by a number of the world's largest research centres. The arguments in favor of locating the ILC on the Dubna land, first of all, are based on JINR's vast experience in meeting complex scientific and technological issues, as well as on the high professionalism of scientists and engineers. As one of the leaders of the unique project "welding using explosion", DLNP researcher B.M.Sabirov said, work on the ILC topic at JINR started in 2007, but a year before that, the groups of Yu.A.Budagov and G.Belletini in Italy had started to collaborate in the development of design documentation for the so-called cryomodule for ILC.

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The coordinator of the HADES project at JINR, Professor Yu.V.Zanevsky said that the results on carbon nuclei obtained recently in experiments at the HADES facility confirmed that the DLS PUZZLE mystery, discovered 10 years before in Berkeley (USA) in experiments on beams of calcium and carbon nuclei had really existed. "The mystery was the almost tenfold increase in the yield of dileptons in the invariant mass area of about 150-550 MeV compared to the values predicted by theoretical models. It should be emphasized that solving the DLS puzzle was one of the most important tasks of the HADES project. Recently obtained experimental data have also significantly enhanced theorists. In 2005, a meeting of the HADES collaboration was held in Dubna, at which several reports by JINR experimenters and theorists were also presented. The collaboration highly appreciates the contribution of JINR staff to the development of the spectrometer, software and processing of experimental data. This work was also recognized at JINR: a series of papers on the HADES project were nominated for the JINR Prize for 2007. It should be added that the paper on this project stimulated and helped us to establish a European-level detector laboratory at LHE, equipped with the most advanced equipment and instruments."

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The JINR library on the street Blokhintsev hosted the concert "Seasons", in which M.Arabey took part and Alexandra Donets played the piano part. The concert was conducted and poems were read by O.Trifonov and I.Leonovich. Romances by P.Tchaikovsky and S.Rachmaninov were performed. And at the Cultural Centre "Mir", a concert of the chamber choir "Credo" was held, compositions of French composers of the 16th century and Russian folk songs were performed. According to A.Yanata: "Wonderful soloists, thunderous applause and a full house were both in the library and in the Cultural Centre."

Head of the column Irina LEONOVICH