The representative of the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany) Jacobus Onderwater has told about planned research collaboration with MEPhI on its participation in the international project HADES, which will start from October this year.

At the invitation of the Department № 67 “Condensed matter physics” Jacobus Onderwater held a seminar for MEPhI students and graduates.

He told about the results of his research, received under the supervision of a MEPhI graduate I.V. Selyuzhenkov who currently holds a permanent position as a researcher at the GSI. In particular, he told about the joint work carried out on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. From September 2015 I.V. Selyuzhenkov will start to work in MEPhI. He will be engaged in preparation of students and postgraduates for work in international experiments NA61/SHINE (CERN) and HADES (GSI, Darmstadt).

During the visit Jacobus Onderwater gave a lecture on “Methods of study of collective flows in nuclei collisions” and conducted a workshop on “Charge dependence of two-particle correlations of hadrons in collisions of relativistic nuclei” for a group of young scientists engaged in research in the field of relativistic nuclear physics under the guidance of an Associate Professor of the Department №67 Alexander Taranenko. The seminar was also attended by students, postgraduates and staff from other units of the University, participating in large international experiments.

Research results of the GSI employee Jacobus Onderwater are of great interest to scientists from MEPhI and can be used in the analysis of data for all international scientific experiments, in which Russian scientists are involved.