KEDR detector at VEPP-4M electron-positron colliderPlasma physics facility GDL
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) 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 Budker in 1959. Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of 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,[1][2] the first particle accelerator in the Soviet Union which collided two beams of particles, just a few months after the ADA collider became operational at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy in February 1961.[3] The BINP employs over 3000 people, and hosts research groups and facilities.
Active facilities
VEPP-4 – e+e−collider for the energy range 2Ebeam up to 12 GeV
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^K.V. Zolotarev; A.M. Batrakov; S.V. Khruschev; G.N. Kulipanov; V.H. Lev; N.A. Mezentsev; E.G. Miginsky; V.A. Shkaruba; V.M. Syrovatin; V.M. Tsukanov; V.K. Zjurba (2004). "High Magnetic Field Superconducting Magnets Fabricated in Budker INP for SR Generation" (PDF). Proceedings of RuPAC XIX. Dubna, Russia.
External links
Budker Institute's homepage
Alexandre Telnov's photographic history of the BINP