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No. 4 (2693) 25 January, 1984

At JINR, preparations are underway to carry out experiments on colliding electron-positron beams (power transmission line (PTL) facility) at CERN. Participation in this programme will provide Dubna physicists with the opportunity to implement research in one of the most promising areas of modern physics. Issues of cooperation between specialists from JINR, IHEP (Serpukhov) and CERN in preparing experiments at the PTL facility were discussed during the visit to Dubna of one of the participants in the DELPHI experiment Dr. C.Bozio (CERN).

Head of the Sector of DNAM L.Barabash, Head of the LHE DB E.Matyushevsky, Head of the Sector of LHE E.Tsyganov, Dr. K.Bozio (CERN), senior LHE researchers S.Mukhin and Z.Guzik, Head of the LHE department M.Shafranov are discussing the session plan on testing a prototype of the hadronic calorimeter of the DELPHI facility on the beam of the LHE synchrophasotron.
Photo by Y.TUMANOV

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The results of city competitions for the title "Best in the profession" have been summed up. Among the winners and prize-winners of these competitions are young employees of the Institute: L.Avdeev took the first place, V.Bednyakov - the second, A.Olshevsky - the third place in the competition for the title "Best young scientist"; G.Shirkov and V.Ovchinnikov shared the second place and S.Merzlyakov - the third in the competition for the title "Best young inventor"; V.Gorshkov took the third place in the competition for the title "Best young innovator". V.Trofimov and P.Kulinich took the second and third places, respectively, in the competition for the title "Best young engineer" among representatives of scientific institutions.

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The IBR-2 reactor at FLNP was successfully put into operation in the new year. In the first scheduled cycle from 9 January to 20 January, it operated without fail for a physical experiment for 261 hours with high stability of all parameters. Physical investigations were carried out using eight IBR-2 beams and the Regatta irradiation facility.

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On 19 January, a JINR seminar "Current problems of quantum theory" dedicated to the memory of D.I.Blokhintsev was held. The following reports were presented to the participants of the seminar: E.Entralgo and V.Kuryshkin "Quantum distribution functions as a tool for the quantization procedure", M.Volkov "Meson Lagrangians in the quark model of the superconducting type", I.Golutvin "Development of anomalous nuclear fragments in the interaction of relativistic nuclei (preliminary results)", B.Arbuzova "On the problem of color observability".

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The winter holidays for the children of the choir studio "Dubna" were memorable. The senior choir, at the invitation of the Kirov Philharmonic, visited this ancient Russian city with a creative programme. V.Revitskaya noted: "The citizens of Dubna were received very warmly at the Kirov Philharmonic: the hall was always crowded, the audience was attentive. Here, the choir gave four concerts. And on the day of departure, we were able to watch on regional television the performance of the political song ensemble "Time," recorded at one of the concerts."

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An exhibition of scientific literature from the American Institute of Physics, purchased by the store "Eureka" by order of the JINR Scientific and Technological Library at the IV International Book Fair in Moscow, has been opened in the JINR Scientific and Technological Library.

Head of the column Irina LEONOVICH