Department of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics. Department of High Energy Physics and Elementary Particles Department of Quantum Theory

15.02.2023

Head of the department
Professor Denisov Viktor Ivanovich

The Department of High Energy Physics was founded in 1970 on the initiative of the director of the SINP MSU, academician S.N. Vernova. From its foundation to the present time, the department has been permanently headed by Academician Anatoly Alekseevich Logunov. The department was created as a training base for training highly qualified specialists for the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino and other similar scientific institutes. In turn, IHEP became the main scientific base of the department. The department had the closest connection with IHEP: 5th-6th year students spent most of their study time in Protvino, where they worked in laboratories, attended special courses, and completed their diploma theses.

Head of the Department of Quantum Theory
and high energy physics
Professor V.I. Denisov

Significant changes occurred in 1982, when, after the reorganization, most of the employees of the Department of Electrodynamics and Quantum Theory (at the origins of which stood such prominent scientists as academicians L.D. Landau, M.A. Leontovich, A.S. Davydov, later worked there Academician I.M. Lifshits) joined the department headed by A.A. Logunov. The updated department was named quantum theory and high energy physics. The staff of the department increased significantly in 1992, when it included such famous scientists as academicians V.G. Kadyshevsky, Director of JINR (Dubna), V.A. Matveev, Director of INR RAS (Troitsk), D.V. Shirkov, which strengthened the department’s ties with the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to the mentioned institutes, the department has always had a close connection with the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, where the Department of Theoretical High Energy Physics was organized from graduates of the department. The growth in the number of members of the department was accompanied by an expansion of scientific topics - the department became general theoretical.

Study work

Department staff give general courses of lectures: “Quantum theory” (6.7 semesters, Prof. Yu.M. Loskutov, Prof. O.A. Khrustalev, Prof. K.A. Sveshnikov, Prof. P.K. Silaev), "Electrodynamics" (5.6 semesters, Prof. V.I. Grigoriev, Prof. V.I. Denisov, Prof. A.A. Vlasov, Associate Professor V.S. Rostovsky, Associate Professor A.R. Frenkin).

The following special courses are taught at the department: "Group Theory" (Prof. O.A. Khrustalev, Professor P.K. Silaev), "Quantum Field Theory" (Prof. D.A. Slavnov), "Theory of Renormalizations and Renormalization Groups" (Prof. D.A. Slavnov), “Numerical methods in theoretical physics” (Prof. P.K. Silaev), “Introduction to elementary particle physics” (Academician V.A. Matveev, Associate Professor K.V. Parfenov ), "Additional chapters of classical electrodynamics" (Prof. A.A. Vlasov), "Introduction to the theory of gravity" (Prof. V.I. Denisov), "Theory of gravitational field" (Prof. Yu.M. Loskutov), " Modern methods of quantum field theory" (academician D.V. Shirkov), "Nonlinear quantum field theory" (Associate Professor M.V. Chichikina), "Dynamic equations in quantum field theory" (Prof. V.I. Savrin), "Theory of gauge fields" (Prof. Yu.S. Vernov), "Systems and subsystems in quantum mechanics" (Prof. O.A. Khrustalev), "Physics of quantum computing" (Associate Professor O.D. Timofeevskaya), "Solitons , instantons, skyrmions and quark bags" (Prof. K.A. Sveshnikov).

The department runs original workshops: “Computer Computing in Theoretical Physics”, “Language of Analytical Computing REDUCE”, workshop on the course “Numerical Methods in Theoretical Physics” (head of the workshop, researcher V.A. Ilyina).

Scientific work

The department conducts scientific research in the following main areas:

Relativistic theory of gravity (supervisor - academician A.A. Logunov).
Search and study of new nonlinear and quantum effects in gravity, cosmology, particle physics and vacuum state (supervisor - Academician A.A. Logunov).
Problems of quantum field theory (supervisor - academician D.V. Shirkov).
Effects of nonlinear electrodynamics of vacuum and their manifestations in laboratory and astrophysical conditions (supervisor - Prof. V.I. Denisov).
Study of gravitational effects (supervisor - Prof. Yu.M. Loskutov).
Nonlinear effects in quantum field theory, quantum computers, quantum cryptography (supervisor - Prof. O.A. Khrustalev).
Problems of quantum mechanical theory of measurements (supervisor - Prof. D.A. Slavnov).
Chiral quark-meson models of low-energy baryon state (supervisor - Prof. K.A. Sveshnikov).
Theory of baroelectric and baromagnetic phenomena (supervisor - Prof. V.I. Grigoriev).

The staff of the department obtained major scientific results:

Academician A.A. Logunov made a fundamental contribution to the development of quantum field theory, the substantiation and application of dispersion relations, and the creation of the renormalization group method, which has found application in solving a wide range of problems. He established strict asymptotic theorems for the behavior of the characteristics of the strong interaction at high energies. He proposed a new approach to the study of multiple processes, which turned out to be most adequate to the compositional structure of particles and made it possible to discover at the accelerator of the Institute of High Energy Physics a new, most important regularity of the microworld - scale invariance.
Developing the ideas of Poincare, Minkowski, Einstein and Hilbert, Academician A.A. Logunov created a consistent relativistic theory of gravity (RTG), which, in full agreement with all experimental facts, eliminated the fundamental difficulties of the general theory of relativity. In RTG, the single space-time continuum for all fields, including gravitational one, is the pseudo-Euclidean Minkowski space, and the source of the gravitational field is the conserved energy-momentum tensor of matter, including the gravitational field itself. This approach allows us to unambiguously construct the theory of gravity as a gauge theory, in which the gravitational field has spins 2 and 0 and is a physical field in the spirit of Faraday-Maxwell, and therefore localization of gravitational energy is possible, the concept of an inertial coordinate system is preserved, and the laws of energy-momentum conservation are strictly satisfied and angular momentum. In this case, due to the universality of gravity and the tensor nature of the gravitational field, an effective field Riemannian space necessarily arises. The equations of the gravitational field in the RTG contain an explicitly metric Minkowski tensor, and the gravitational field becomes massive. The graviton mass is extremely small, but its presence is important, since thanks to the presence of mass terms in the RTG it is always possible to unambiguously separate the inertial forces from the gravitational forces. The theory unambiguously explains the results of all gravitational effects in the Solar System. In RTG, the property of the gravitational field was most fully revealed: by its action it not only slows down the passage of time, but also stops the process of time dilation, and, consequently, the process of compression of matter. A new property of “field self-limitation” has also appeared, which plays an important role in the mechanism of gravitational collapse and the evolution of the Universe. In particular, “black holes” are impossible: a collapsing star cannot go under its gravitational radius; The development of a homogeneous and isotropic Universe proceeds cyclically from a certain maximum density to a minimum, and the density of matter always remains finite and the state of a point Big Bang is not achieved. Moreover, the Universe is infinite and “flat”, and there is a large hidden mass of “dark matter” in it.
Professor Yu.M. Loskutov predicted effects: depolarization of Cherenkov radiation near the threshold; spontaneous radiative polarization of electrons in a magnetic field; induced polarization of fermions in a magnetic field; asymmetry of the angular distribution of neutrinos generated in a magnetic field, and the possibility of self-acceleration of neutron stars. An apparatus for quantum electrodynamics in a strong magnetic field has been created, a number of effects have been predicted (fusion and splitting of photons, modification of Coulomb's law, etc.). A hypothesis about gravitational weak interactions violating charge and space parity was proposed and implemented; gravitational rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation is predicted.
Professor O.A. Khrustalev Based on the general principles of local field theory, a number of asymptotic relations between the cross sections for the interaction of hadrons at high energies have been predicted. A probabilistic description of scattering at high energies has been developed. A scheme for describing quantum fields against the background of classical ones has been developed, satisfying the required conservation laws. A conditional density matrix apparatus has been created that consistently describes the behavior of subsystems in a large system.

Professors of the department

About the professors of the department

Lifshits Ilya Mikhailovich(01/13/1917, Kharkov - 10/23/1982, Moscow, buried at Troekurovsky cemetery). Theoretical physicist. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkov University (1936).

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1939). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1941). Professor of the Department of Quantum Theory (1964-1977) and the Department of Low Temperature Physics (1978-1982) of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. In 1964, at the invitation of the rector of Moscow State University I.G. Petrovsky organized the specialty “Theory of Solid State” at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University and directed it until 1982. He gave courses of lectures: “Quantum Theory of Solid State”, “Physical Kinetics”, “Theory of Polymer Chains”, “Quantum Theory of Disordered Systems”, etc. He led the scientific seminar "Theory of Solid State". Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967). Chairman of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the theory of solids (1961-1982). Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University (1962). Foreign Member of the American Academy of Sciences (1982). Member of the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals: "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics", "Solid State Physics", "Low Temperature Physics", "Journal of Low Temperature Physics", "Journal of Statistical Physics", "Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids" .

Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975) and medals. Recipient of the award named after. L.I. Mandelstam of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1952), F. Simon Prize of the English Royal Physical Society (1962). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1967).

Area of scientific interests: theory of real nonideal crystals; electronic theory of metals; quantum liquids and quantum crystals; physics of polymers and biopolymers; theory of disordered systems. Created a dynamic theory of real crystals, predicted the existence of local and quasi-local frequencies. One of the creators of modern quantum theory of solids. He came up with the idea of reconstructing the energy spectrum of solids from experimental data, based on the concept of quasiparticles - bosons and fermions. He showed that the restoration of Bose branches of the spectrum is possible not only in the traditional way (using inelastic neutron scattering), but also using the temperature dependence of thermodynamic characteristics. The restoration of the Fermi branches of the spectrum of metals was achieved thanks to the creation by him and his collaborators of a modern form of electronic theory of metals. He developed a geometric language that is widely used in the physics of metals. Constructed a theory of the electronic spectrum of disordered systems. Made significant contributions to the theory of phase transitions. Formulated the basic concepts of the kinetics of phase transitions of the first and second kind and created the theory of nucleation. Predicted electron-topological transitions of the 2.5th order in metals. Author of pioneering works on statistical physics of polymers. Created the theory of coil-globule transitions in polymer and biopolymer systems.

Theme of the candidate's dissertation: "On the theory of solid solutions." Topic of doctoral dissertation: "Optical behavior of nonideal crystals in the infrared region."

Trained more than 60 candidates and doctors of science. Published about 250 scientific papers.

Main works:

“On anomalies in the electronic characteristics of metals in the region of high pressures” (JETP, 1960, 38 (5), 1569-1576).
"On the structure of the energy spectrum and quantum states of disordered condensed systems. (UFN, 1964, 83 (4), 617-663).
"Some questions of the statistical theory of biopolymers" (JETP, 1968, 55 (6), 2408-2422).
"Selected works. Physics of real crystals and disordered systems" (Moscow: Nauka, 1987, 551 pp.).
"Selected works. Electronic theory of metals. Physics of polymers and biopolymers" (M.: Nauka, 1994, 442 pp.).

The Department of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics has existed for more than 40 years. It was created by Professor Yu.V. Novozhilov under the direct supervision of Academician Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, the founder of the St. Petersburg-Leningrad School of Theoretical Physics. This school is known all over the world by such names as A.A. Fridman, G.A. Gamov, L.D. Landau, V.N. Gribov and others.

Man has always been interested in two questions: what are the smallest particles from which all matter is formed, including man himself, and how the Universe, of which he himself is a part, is structured. Moving in his knowledge in these two opposite directions, a person, on the one hand, moving down the steps (molecule atom nucleus protons, neutrons quarks, gluons), came to understand the processes occurring at extremely short distances, and on the other hand , moving up the steps (planet solar system galaxy), he came to an understanding of the structure of the Universe as a whole.

At the same time, it turned out that the Universe cannot be stable, and experimental facts were obtained confirming that about 10 billion years ago the entire Universe, at the time of its emergence as a result of the “Big Bang,” itself had microscopic dimensions. At the same time, to analyze the process of its development at this early stage, knowledge about the microworld obtained in experiments on modern particle accelerators is necessary. Moreover, the greater the energy of the particles collided at the accelerator, the smaller the distances at which the behavior of matter can be studied, and the earlier the moment from which we can trace the evolution of the Universe. This is how the research of micro- and macro-cosmos merged.

Even 50 years ago, it was believed that all matter consists of atoms, and those, in turn, are built from three fundamental particles - positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons that form the central nucleus, and negatively charged electrons orbiting around the nucleus.

It has now been established that protons and neutrons are built from even more “fundamental” objects - quarks. Six types of quarks, along with six leptons (electron, muon, tau and three corresponding neutrinos) and four intermediate vector bosons, serve as the building blocks from which all matter in the Universe is built.

High energy and particle physics studies the properties and behavior of these fundamental constituents of matter. Their properties are manifested in four known interactions: gravitational, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, strong nuclear. According to modern concepts, weak nuclear and electromagnetic interactions are two different manifestations of the same type of interaction, electroweak. Physicists hope that in the near future this interaction will be included, together with the strong nuclear one, in the Grand Unification Theory, and possibly together with the gravitational interaction in the Unified Theory of Interaction.

To study fundamental particles and their interactions, it is necessary to build giant accelerators (devices in which elementary particles are accelerated to speeds close to the speed of light and then collide with each other). Due to their enormous size (tens of kilometers), accelerators are built in underground tunnels. The most powerful accelerators operate or are being built in the laboratories CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Fermilab (Chicago, USA), DESY (Hamburg, Germany), SLAC (California, USA).

Currently, at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the construction of the most powerful particle accelerator LHC (Large Hadron Collider), capable of accelerating not only elementary particles (protons), but also atomic nuclei, is in full swing. It is expected that by colliding lead nuclei accelerated to ultra-high energies, this accelerator will be able to obtain a new state of matter – quark-gluon plasma, in which quarks and gluons – the constituent elements of the protons and neutrons of the colliding nuclei – will combine together. From the point of view of analyzing the development of the Universe, this state of matter was at a stage that existed approximately 10 microseconds after the Big Bang.

To record signs of the formation of quark-gluon plasma during the collision of lead nuclei, a huge experimental installation is being built at the LHC accelerator and a special experiment is planned to be carried out on it - ALICE (A Large Ion Collision Experiment). The Department of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics takes part in the preparation of the ALICE experiment at CERN and the development of a physical research program for it.

High-energy and elementary particle physics not only gives a person the opportunity to understand the world around him, but also contributes to the development and implementation of the most modern technologies. Hundreds of scientists, engineers, specialists in the field of electronics, materials science and, especially, computer technology are usually involved in setting up and conducting experiments in high energy physics. The required speed of collecting and processing information during particle collisions at high energies exceeds all conceivable limits. Almost all modern computer technologies have developed primarily due to the needs of high energy physics. The most significant development in this area in recent years has been the creation of the World Wide Web, a universally accepted format for presenting information on the Internet, invented at CERN about 10 years ago to provide instant access to information for hundreds of scientists from dozens of laboratories in various countries working in the field of particle physics. The first WWW servers in St. Petersburg were launched at the Faculty of Physics of St. Petersburg State University, at the Research Institute of Physics of St. Petersburg State University and at the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics in Gatchina.

As the methods of quantum field theory, the main mathematical apparatus of the theory of elementary particles, developed, it became clear that they could be used with great success in other areas of theoretical physics. As a result, along with ongoing research in the field of modern theory of elementary particles, which is a priority at the department, new directions have emerged. New mathematical methods are being developed - the theory of quantum symmetry and non-commutative spaces. Methods of functional integration, Feynman diagrams and the theory of renormalizations have been actively used recently in the theory of critical phenomena (theory of phase transitions) and the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence.

In recent years, completely unexpected applications have been found for the methods of quantum field theory, which, at first glance, are quite far from theoretical physics in its traditional understanding. In particular, the theory of self-organizing criticality, economic physics, and the theory of neural networks have emerged and are rapidly developing (including at the department), in which the most universal mechanisms of self-organization of complex systems are modeled on the basis of elementary ideas about the nature of the interaction of their components. The experience of studying models of this type, accumulated in the field of quantum field theory and statistical physics, as well as the use of computer experiments, allows one to obtain interesting quantitative results in economics, neurophysiology and biology.

The Department of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics annually graduates up to 10 specialists in the Program “Theory of Interaction of Elementary Particles and Quantum Field Theory”. The teaching and scientific staff of the department consists of 14 doctors and 7 candidates of science (the department has no employees without scientific degrees). The founder of the department, Yu.V. Novozhilov and the head of the department, M.A. Brown, have honorary titles of Honored Scientist, several employees in different years were awarded University Prizes, as well as the title of Soros Professor.

All members of the department have extensive connections with foreign colleagues from universities in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the USA, etc., and regularly go on business trips to conduct joint research. The works of the department’s employees have priority and are actively cited in world scientific periodicals. Almost all employees of the department work with the support of grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, some of the employees have funding from foreign foundations INTAS, NATO, DAAD, CRDF, INFN, etc.

Graduates of the department receive a broad education in theoretical and mathematical physics that meets the highest world standards. Some students receive, along with a master's degree from St. Petersburg State University, degrees from foreign higher scientific institutions (for example, Ecole Politechnique). After completing their studies, graduates have ample opportunities to continue their education and scientific activities both in Russia and abroad. At least half of the graduates, as a rule, remain in graduate school at the department, some graduates are accepted into institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Mathematics), and some graduates are accepted into graduate school at foreign universities.

Study work

Scientific work

The department conducts scientific research in the following main areas:

Relativistic theory of gravity (supervisor - academician A.A. Logunov).
Search and study of new nonlinear and quantum effects in gravity, cosmology, particle physics and vacuum state (supervisor - Academician A.A. Logunov).
Problems of quantum field theory (supervisor - academician D.V. Shirkov).
Effects of nonlinear electrodynamics of vacuum and their manifestations in laboratory and astrophysical conditions (supervisor - Prof. V.I. Denisov).
Study of gravitational effects (supervisor - Prof. Yu.M. Loskutov).
Nonlinear effects in quantum field theory, quantum computers, quantum cryptography (supervisor - Prof. O.A. Khrustalev).
Problems of quantum mechanical theory of measurements (supervisor - Prof. D.A. Slavnov).
Chiral quark-meson models of low-energy baryon state (supervisor - Prof. K.A. Sveshnikov).
Theory of baroelectric and baromagnetic phenomena (supervisor - Prof. V.I. Grigoriev).

The staff of the department obtained major scientific results:

Academician A.A. Logunov made a fundamental contribution to the development of quantum field theory, the substantiation and application of dispersion relations, and the creation of the renormalization group method, which has found application in solving a wide range of problems. He established strict asymptotic theorems for the behavior of the characteristics of the strong interaction at high energies. He proposed a new approach to the study of multiple processes, which turned out to be most adequate to the compositional structure of particles and made it possible to discover at the accelerator of the Institute of High Energy Physics a new, most important regularity of the microworld - scale invariance.
Developing the ideas of Poincaré, Minkowski, Einstein and Hilbert, academician A.A. Logunov created a consistent relativistic theory of gravity (RTG), which, in full agreement with all experimental facts, eliminated the fundamental difficulties of the general theory of relativity. In RTG, the single space-time continuum for all fields, including gravitational one, is the pseudo-Euclidean Minkowski space, and the source of the gravitational field is the conserved energy-momentum tensor of matter, including the gravitational field itself. This approach allows us to unambiguously construct the theory of gravity as a gauge theory, in which the gravitational field has spins 2 and 0 and is a physical field in the spirit of Faraday-Maxwell, and therefore localization of gravitational energy is possible, the concept of an inertial coordinate system is preserved, and the laws of energy-momentum conservation are strictly satisfied and angular momentum. In this case, due to the universality of gravity and the tensor nature of the gravitational field, an effective field Riemannian space necessarily arises. The equations of the gravitational field in the RTG contain an explicitly metric Minkowski tensor, and the gravitational field becomes massive. The graviton mass is extremely small, but its presence is important, since thanks to the presence of mass terms in the RTG it is always possible to unambiguously separate the inertial forces from the gravitational forces. The theory unambiguously explains the results of all gravitational effects in the Solar System. In the RTG, the property of the gravitational field was most fully revealed: by its action it not only slows down the passage of time, but also stops the process of time dilation, and, consequently, the process of compression of matter. A new property of “field self-limitation” has also appeared, which plays an important role in the mechanism of gravitational collapse and the evolution of the Universe. In particular, “black holes” are impossible: a collapsing star cannot go under its gravitational radius; The development of a homogeneous and isotropic Universe proceeds cyclically from a certain maximum density to a minimum, and the density of matter always remains finite and the state of a point Big Bang is not achieved. Moreover, the Universe is infinite and “flat”, and there is a large hidden mass of “dark matter” in it.
Professor Yu.M. Loskutov predicted the following effects: depolarization of Cherenkov radiation near the threshold; spontaneous radiative polarization of electrons in a magnetic field; induced polarization of fermions in a magnetic field; asymmetry of the angular distribution of neutrinos generated in a magnetic field, and the possibility of self-acceleration of neutron stars. An apparatus for quantum electrodynamics in a strong magnetic field has been created, a number of effects have been predicted (fusion and splitting of photons, modification of Coulomb's law, etc.). A hypothesis about gravitational weak interactions violating charge and space parity was proposed and implemented; gravitational rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation is predicted.
Professor O.A. Khrustalev, based on the general principles of local field theory, predicted a number of asymptotic relations between the cross sections for the interaction of hadrons at high energies. A probabilistic description of scattering at high energies has been developed. A scheme for describing quantum fields against the background of classical ones has been developed, satisfying the required conservation laws. A conditional density matrix apparatus has been created that consistently describes the behavior of subsystems in a large system.

The department actively participates in organizing and conducting annual international seminars on problems of quantum field theory and the theory of gravity at IHEP - Protvino. Employees, graduate students and students of the department, along with the main staff of the Institute for Theoretical Problems of the Microworld named after. N.N. Bogolyubov Moscow State University form the basis of the leading scientific school of the Russian Federation "Development of field theoretical methods in particle physics, gravity and cosmology", the scientific director of which is Academician A.A. Logunov.

The Department of Atomic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Collision Theory trains specialists (both experimentalists and theorists) to work in the following main areas: high-energy physics and elementary particle physics, physics of the atomic nucleus and nuclear reactions, physics of nanostructures, applied nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. Undergraduate students, graduate students and graduates of the department work in major scientific experiments. For example, in all collaborations at the Large Alron Collider at CERN (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE), at the D0 and RHIC installations (USA), in the NICA project (JINR, Russia), in the ELISe, A2, ZEUS and FAIR experiments (Germany ), in the GRAAL experiment (France), at the national research center INFN (Italy), at Stanford University (USA), at LAN (Los Alamos, USA), at the German research centers DESY and GSI, in research teams associated with the creation of the next generation accelerators ILC and CLIC.

Students and graduate students of the department have unique opportunities to participate in various international and Russian scientific schools, seminars, conferences such as summer schools for students and young scientists of CERN, Fermilab, DESY, GSI, international workshops QFTHEP, seminars for young talents conducted by the " Dynasty”, and many other scientific events.

The Department of Nuclear Physics and Quantum Collision Theory traces its history back to the first nuclear department at Moscow State University and one of the first in the world - the Department of Atomic Nucleus and Radioactivity, which began its work in 1940 under the leadership of Academician D.V. Skobeltsyn. The department is a direct successor to the Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy (headed by L.V. Groshev) and the Department of Theoretical Nuclear Physics (headed by D.I. Blokhintsev). From 1971 to 1991, the head of the Department of Experimental Nuclear Physics, and after 1979 - the Department of Atomic Nuclear Physics was Professor A.F. Tulinov is an outstanding experimental physicist, one of the authors of the discovery of the shadow effect, the founder of a number of new directions in the field of studying the properties of crystalline bodies with beams of charged particles. From 1991 to 2007, the head of the department was Professor V.V. Balashov is a well-known theoretical physicist in the field of the theory of the atomic nucleus and nuclear reactions, the quantum theory of intermediate and high-energy scattering, and an outstanding teacher. In 1998, the department was given a new name: “Department of Atomic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Collision Theory.” Since 2009, the head of the department has been the deputy director of the SINP MSU, head of the department of theoretical high-energy physics, Professor V.I. Savrin, who made a great contribution to the relativistic theory of the density matrix and the theory of bound states.

Currently, the department is taught by employees of leading Russian scientific centers: SINP MSU (Moscow), IHEP (Protvino), INR RAS (Moscow), JINR (Dubna). Among them are academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professors, doctors and candidates of physics and mathematics. Sci. A high percentage of actively working scientists is one of the distinctive features of the department, its calling card. The department's curriculum includes the following courses (the list may change slightly over the course of several years):

Interaction of particles and radiation with matter (Associate Professor Kuzakov K.A.)
Experimental methods of nuclear physics (Professor S.Yu. Platonov)
Quantum collision theory (Associate Professor Kuzakov K.A.)
Kinematics of elementary processes (Associate Professor Strokovsky E.A.)
High energy particle detectors (academician S.P. Denisov)
Experimental methods in high energy physics (corresponding member Obraztsov V.F.)
Group theory in particle and nuclear physics (Associate Professor Volobuev I.P.)
Physics of the atomic nucleus (nuclear structure) (Professor Eremenko D.O.)
Quantum electrodynamics (Associate Professor Nikitin N.V.)
Introduction to elementary particle physics (Professor B.A. Arbuzov)
Physics of electromagnetic interactions (Professor V.G. Nedorezov)
Selected issues of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) (Associate Professor Snigirev A.M.)
Standard Model and its extensions (Professor E.E. Boos)
Nuclear reactions (Professor D.O. Eremenko)
Nuclear physics of heavy ions (Professor D.O. Eremenko)
Spectroscopy of hadrons (candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Obukhovsky I.T.)
Electronics in high energy physics (Professor S.G. Basiladze)
Selected topics in scattering theory (Professor L.D. Blokhintsev)
Particle physics at colliders (Associate Professor Dubinin M.N.)
Physics of fission of atomic nuclei (Professor Platonov S.Yu.)
Density matrix (Associate Professor Nikitin N.V.)
Physics of collisions of relativistic nuclei (Professor V.L. Korotkikh)

The position of the department is that the student and his supervisor have the opportunity to choose those special courses that best suit their scientific interests. Therefore, the number of special courses offered to students at the department exceeds the mandatory number of disciplines taken, provided for by the official curriculum.

The staff of the department conducts and supports a special nuclear workshop of the Department of Nuclear Physics (NPD). Currently, this workshop includes 9 laboratory works designed to familiarize students with the basics of modern experimental nuclear physics techniques. The objectives of the workshop are closely related to both the lecture courses on general nuclear physics and the system of special courses created at most departments of the Nuclear Physics Department.

The theoretical workshop developed by Professor V.V. Balashov back in the mid-1960s is unique. At the workshop, students acquire the computational skills necessary in the daily work of a theoretical physicist. Currently, this workshop is supported, developed and improved by the staff of the department and numerous students of V.V. Balashov.

The main scientific directions of the department are listed below. If any direction seems interesting to you, then you can always contact the head of this direction using the contact information available on the site and find out all the details that interest you. The staff and teachers of the department are always happy to answer your questions.

I. Experiments in the field of high energy physics

1. Research into the properties of the t-quark and physics beyond the Standard Model in collisions of elementary particles and nuclei at modern high-energy accelerators.

Experiments are carried out in the laboratories of CERN (Switzerland), DESY (Germany), FNAL (USA), Institute of High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia), JINR (Dubna, Russia).

Head: Professor Boos Eduard Ernstovich, head. Department of SINP MSU, e-mail:

2. Development of new methods for detecting particles and measuring their characteristics.

Experiments are carried out in the laboratories of CERN (Switzerland), FNAL (USA) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia).

Head: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Sergey Petrovich Denisov, head. Laboratory of IHEP (Protvino), e-mail: [email protected]

3. Study of extremely rare decays of beautiful particles and physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHCb installation of the Large Hadron Collider.

The experiment is carried out at CERN (Switzerland).

[email protected]

4. Nucleus-nucleus interactions at relativistic energies

Research at the RHIC (USA) and LHC (CERN) colliders.

Head: Professor Vladimir Leonidovich Korotkikh, e-mail:

5. Study of electromagnetic interactions of hadrons and nuclei

The work is being carried out at the INR RAS together with leading European centers for the study of electromagnetic interactions of nuclei (GRAAL collaboration, Grenoble (France), ELISe, Darmstadt, A2, Mainz, Germany).

Head: Professor Vladimir Georgievich Nedorezov, head. Laboratory of INR RAS, e-mail: [email protected]

6. Study of the role of strange quarks in the structure of nucleons and nuclei

The experiment is carried out on the NIS-GIBS magnetic spectrometer (JINR, Dubna).

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Strokovsky Evgeniy Afanasyevich, head. Department of LHE JINR (Dubna, e-mail: [email protected]

7. Search for new physics in kaon decays

Experiments are carried out at various installations that operate on the U-70 accelerator (Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino).

Head: corresponding member. RAS, Professor Vladimir Fedorovich Obraztsov, Ch. scientific co-workers IHEP (Protvino), e-mail: [email protected]

II. Experiments in the field of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions

8. Nuclear reactions with heavy ions, fission physics

Supervisors: Professor Oleg Arkadyevich Yuminov, head of physics and mathematics. Sciences Platonov Sergey Yurievich, professor of the department and lead. scientific co-workers SINP, e-mail:

9. Study of single-particle characteristics of nuclei and scattering of charged particles of low and medium energies by atomic nuclei

Head: Ph.D. physics and mathematics Sciences Bespalova Olga Viktorovna, senior. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, 19th building. SINP MSU, e-mail:

10. Studies of the mechanisms of nuclear reactions and the structure of light nuclei by the method of angular correlation of gamma rays and charged reaction products

Supervisors: Professor Zelenskaya Natalya Semenovna, Ch. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail: zelenskaya@anna19.. laboratory SINP MSU, e-mail:

III. Theoretical research

1. Quasipotential method in the relativistic theory of bound states

Head: Professor Savrin Viktor Ivanovich, head. department and head Department of SINP MSU, e-mail:

2. Nonperturbative effects in gauge theories of the Standard Model

Head: Professor Arbuzov Boris Andreevich, leading. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

3. Theories of interactions of elementary particles in space-time with additional dimensions

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Volobuev Igor Pavlovich, leading scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

4. Physics at colliders and gauge models of quantum field theory

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Dubinin Mikhail Nikolaevich, leader. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

5. Hard processes in quantum chromodynamics and diagnostics of quark-gluon matter

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Snigirev Alexander Mikhailovich, leading scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

6. Rare decays of charming and enchanted particles in the Standard Model and its extensions. Correlations in relativistic systems.

Supervisor: Ph.D. Nikitin Nikolay Viktorovich, associate professor of the department e-mail: [email protected]

7. Production of exotic hadrons (dibaryons and light scalar mesons) in nuclear collisions and the structure of light nuclei

Head: Professor Kukulin Vladimir Iosifovich, head. Laboratory of SINP MSU, e-mail:

8. Quantum theory of multi-body systems

Head: Professor Blokhintsev Leonid Dmitrievich, Ch. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

9. Interaction and decay of complex nuclei

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Eremenko Dmitry Olegovich, professor of the department and leader. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

10. Quantum theory of collisions of fast particles with multielectron systems

Supervisors: associate professor Popov Yuri Vladimirovich, head. laboratory of SINP MSU, e-mail: [email protected]; Associate Professor Kuzakov Konstantin Alekseevich, Associate Professor of the Department, Art. scientific co-workers SINP, e-mail:

IV. Research in related areas

1. Interaction of fast charged particles with matter

Head: Professor Chechenin Nikolai Gavrilovich, head. Department of SINP MSU, e-mail:

2. Application of experimental methods of nuclear physics for research in the field of solid state physics, materials science and nanotechnology

Supervisors: Professor Borisov Anatoly Mikhailovich, V. n. With. SINP MSU, e-mail: [email protected]; Ph.D. Tkachenko Nikita Vladimirovich, junior researcher SINP MSU, tel. 939-49-07, e-mail:

3. Experimental studies of nanostructures, magnetic materials and thin surface layers using conversion Mössbauer spectroscopy

4. Superconducting tunnel detectors

5. Development and experimental studies of new cryogenic detectors of nuclear radiation

Head: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Andrianov Viktor Aleksandrovich, leading scientific co-workers SINP MSU, e-mail:

6. Nuclear medicine and biology

Leaders: Professor Oleg Arkadievich Yuminov, leading. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, tel..ph.-mathematics. Platonov Sergey Yurievich, professor of the department and leader. scientific co-workers SINP MSU, tel..ph.-mathematics. Eremenko Dmitry Olegovich, professor of the department and head. Department of SINP MSU, tel. 939-24-65, e-mail:

7. Study of the impact of simulated deep space factors on the human body