Center of New Physics

Search for physical phenomena beyond the Standard Model

Astrophysics, cosmology and cosmic rays
Experiments at electron-positron colliders
Experiments at hadron colliders



Search for New Physics in experiments with intensive muon beams
R&D for new colliders and detectors
Industrial colliders

NSU leadership positions

Over the last several years a number of projects carried out at NSU have
produced results used all over the world

Measurement of tau lepton mass in BES-III detector at BEPC-II collider

A new system has been developed to measure collider energy via the method of backward Compton scattering of laser light on electron. This system allows measuring the mass of tau lepton with the best accuracy in the world.

Study of exotic bottomonium states at Belle detector on KEKB collider

Two new states Zb(10610) and Zb(10650) have been observed for the first time. The properties of these particles cannot be explained if we assume that they consist of two quarks as ordinary mesons.

Development of method of low-background high-resolution detectors for search of dark matter and coherent neutrino rescattering.

A new concept of coherent avalanche detector with optic registration has been proposed. A feasibility study shows an ability to decrease energy threshold at the level less than 1 keV and obtain spatial resolution about 1 mm. This method can be used to develop positron emission homograph without parallax and to remote monitoring of nuclear reactors.

Measurement of the cross section of e+e- annihilation to hadrons using initial state radiation (ISR) method with BaBar experiment.

A new method to measure cross section has been developed. Cross section of main hadron final states is measured at the energy up to 2 GeV. Precise measurement of hadron cross section is required to calculate important parameters of the Standard Model: constant of the electromagnetic interaction alpha and anomaleous magnetic moment of the muon.

Research and Educational Technology Complex of radiation effects

In the course of the project on the basis of pulsed linear electron accelerator ILU-10 with energy of 5 MeV and beam power of 50 kW a complex infrastructure has been established necessary for the development of radiation technologies for industry, medicine, etc., services on the irradiation of various types of products for industry, medicine, pharmacy and others. The complex is used for the training of specialists in the field of radiation technology, the development of radiation sources and radiation-operation of complex technological systems.

Focus area

A search for dark matter. Prototyping and building a full-size detector. Participation in the experiment in Gran Sasso Laboratory
The development of a universal modular micro-satellite platform. A microsatellite launch in 2018.
The study of CP violation in decays of beauty mesons and baryons
Search for the processes in violation of the law of conservation of lepton number. Conducting experiments sensitive to various contributions of new physics
The study of Dark Energy. Specifying acceleration of the expansion of the Universe

Experts


Mikhail Achasov

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the laboratory at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics Participated in SND detector experiment at the e +e- VEPP-2M и VEPP-2000 colliders (Novosibirsk). Head of the research group in the experiment with BES-III at c-tau factory VERS-II (Beijing, China). The author of precision measurements of cross sections for electron-positron annihilation into hadrons at low energies. Managed the creation of collider energy measurement systems for BEPC-II и VEPP-2000 colliders using the method of Compton backscattering of laser radiation.


Alexander Bondar

Correspondent member of RAS,
Dean of the Physics Department at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in experiments on colliding electron-positron beams, such as MD-1 and KEDR at VEPP-4, CMD-2 at VEPP-2M in Novosibirsk, and Belle B-factory in KEK, Japan. Proposed and successfully implemented a spectrometer for the VEPP-4M with the unique energy resolution for registering scattered electrons; has developed the method of creating electromagnetic calorimeters on the basis of the crystals of cesium iodide, which are now successfully used in a number of experiments. Head of the research group actively involved in the international project Belle (studying the phenomenon of nonconservation of combined (CP) parity in the decays of B mesons).


Alexey Buzulutskov

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Leading researcher at NSU.

Expert in the field of ionizing radiation detectors and photo-detectors based on gas electron multipliers. Author of the method for cryogenic avalanche detectors with optical readout of information. Head of the research group involved in dark matter search experiment DarkSide.


Alexander Dolgov

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Elementary Particle Physics and Astrophysics at NSU.

Renowned theoretical physicist. Specialist in the field of cosmology, astrophysics, particle physics and quantum field theory, problems of dark matter, dark energy and cosmological barrio synthesis. Author of a number of classical results related to the application of quantum field theory methods and elementary particle physics in cosmology. In particular, the mechanism of compensation of vacuum energy to the value close to modern cosmological energy density was offered, i.e., the existence of dark energy was predicted 15-20 years before its actual discovery; the pioneering calculations for reheating of the universe after the inflationary stage were made; the strong instability of a large class of models of modified gravity was demonstrated (Dolgov-Kawasaki instability).


Vladimir Druzhinin

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the laboratory at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in the experiments with ND and SND detectors at the e +e- VEPP-2M collider (Novosibirsk), Е821 experiment on measuring of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (BNL, USA). Designed the method for measuring cross sections for electron-positron annihilations at low energies with radiative return, and implemented the method in the BaBar experiment (SLAC, USA). Currently manages the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 collider (Novosibirsk).


Alexey Garmash

Head of the laboratory at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in Belle experiment at B-factory in KEK, Japan. First discovered the exotic particles Zb(10610) and Zb(10650).


Dmitry Grigoriev

Candidate of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the laboratory at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in CMD-2 experiments at VEPP-2M collider in Novosibirsk, in MEG experiment (PSI, Switzerland), in COMET at J-PARC (Japan). Develops the method of calorimeters for the experiments in particle physics based on the new scintillation crystals.


Alexander Kuzmin

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the laboratory at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in in CMD-2 and CMD-3 experiments at VEPP-2M collider in Novosibirsk, and in Belle experiment at B-factory in KEK, Japan. Discovered and studied the orbital excitations of charmed mesons. Supervises the experiments and preparation of the calorimeter of Belle-II detector at the new superKEKB Collider (Japan).


Ivan Logashenko

Candidate of Physics and Mathematics,
Head of the chair at NSU.

Specialist in particle physics. Participated in in CMD-2 experiments at VEPP-2M collider in Novosibirsk, and in Е821 experiment on measuring of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (BNL, USA). Currently supervises the experiment with CMD-3 detector at VEPP-2000 collider (Novosibirsk) and is a head of research groups within the Mu2E и g-2 experiments (Fermilab, USA). Author of the precise measurement of the pion form factor.

Partners



Belle-II


Mu2e

COMET

MEG

DarkSide