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ARIADNA Collaboration Meeting

On 4 September, the three-day ARIADNA Collaboration Meeting on applied research on accelerated ion beams at the NICA Complex began at the JINR International Conference Centre. The participants are scientists and specialists of 33 organizations from 15 countries, including Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, Egypt, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Based on the meeting results, an integrated programme of the collaboration for several years will be developed.

The event focuses on several main areas of the collaboration’s work, particularly applied research in life sciences, biomedicine, radiation materials science, microelectronics testing, and applied nuclear technologies, along with tasks of the ADSR Project.

The main objectives of the Working Meeting are to discuss the potential work plan for the ARIADNA applied research programme ahead of the session at the NICA Complex scheduled for 2025. The participants will talk about the results of the first experiments conducted in late 2022 and early 2023 as part of a commissioning run at the accelerator complex, the expansion of the ARIADNA partner network, and ways to combine the research infrastructure of cooperating organizations with the capabilities of the NICA Project.

The Russian participants of the meeting include representatives of the leading academic organizations and scientific centres working in space research, materials science, biomedicine, and other key areas of the ARIADNA Collaboration. Among them are employees of Institute for Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), RAS Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, RAS Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, RAS Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS Semenov Federal Research Centre for Chemical Physics, Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre, etc.

The leading universities are represented by scientific teams from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, and North Ossetian State University.

The meeting is attended by representatives of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences (Cuba), Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (India), Cairo and Helwan Universities (Egypt), Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Armenia), the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, the Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University (Belarus), iThemba LABS (South Africa), Institute of Space Science (Romania), Institute of Physics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, etc.

Based on the information from the JINR Press Office