In September, six MEPhI graduate students will arrive at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna to prepare and participate in an experiment at the BM@N facility as part of the Nuclotron-NICA scientific complex. The experiment, scheduled for October, will recreate conditions similar to those that occur in space when neutron stars collide.

BM@N facility

The experiment should clarify the process of transition of matter into aggregate states unusual for terrestrial conditions, which occur only at very high temperatures and energy densities - states that physicists call "strongly interacting matter."

The participation of MEPhI in the work of the NICA collider is supported by the Priority 2030 program. Thanks to this program, leading employees of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" and JINR are currently working at the university. Together with them, preparations are underway for the next MPD ("Multipurpose Detector") experiment, which is scheduled for 2024, during which particles will be accelerated to an even higher energy level than in the BM@N experiment. In particular, with the participation of MEPhI employees, software is being developed for the National Research Computer Network of Russia “NIKS”, which will process the data obtained during the experiments in Dubna.