Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
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The Budker Institute in Winter |
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The Budker Institute in summer in 1960s |
The
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the major centres of advanced study of
nuclear physics in
Russia. It is located in the
Siberian town
Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue.
The institute was founded by
Gersh Itskovich 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 plasma physics) and particle physics. In
1961 the institute began building
VEP-1, the first
particle accelerator in the world which collided two beams of particles.
At present time the institute is carrying out the experiments on
VEPP-4M electron-positron
collider,
GOL3 gasodynamic
plasma trap, building new
VEPP-2000 collider.Also BINP is contributing toward the construction of
CERN's
Large Hadron Collider, providing equipment including beamline magnets.
The centre now employs over 3000 people, and hosts several research groups and facilities, including the Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre.
* 1959-1977 Gersh I. Budker
* 1977- Alexander N. Skrinsky
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Budker Institute's homepage*
Alexandre Telnov's photographic history of the BINP
