MEPhI has hosted the international seminar AARP: Advanced Accelerator & Radiation Physics, which was held in the framework of the global initiative of the UN, which declared 2015 as the international year of Light and Technologies, which use light.
The thematic title of the workshop “Ancient Radiations. New Physics and High-Tech Applications” reflected the main idea that participants of the seminar offered to the public. Infrared, invisible radiation is one of the most well-known radiations, related by its characteristics to visible light and is long-used as a heat source. In recent years a huge variety of new methods that use infrared radiation appeared due to the development of accelerator technologies and tools for the radiation registration.
Once again the international seminar AARP, which was founded by the Director of XLab Frascati at the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, the leading researcher of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Professor of MEPhI Sultan Dabagov, gathered internationally renowned scientists and specialists from different countries in the University.
The workshop focused its attention on applications of infrared radiation as primary or supplementary tool to diagnose structure and properties of matter. Leading researchers from the UK, Italy, France, Germany and Japan, who directly design and use most modern installations for the generation of infrared and terahertz radiation, presented their reports, devoted to the latest developments and research results in this area.
As expected, the topic was very interesting to young scientists – the seminar was attended not only by recognized experts, but also students and postgraduates, who study these scientific area. For three days future specialists listened carefully to the reports of scientists, asked many questions and considered opportunities to participate in joint research and international internships.
The first day of the workshop was devoted to projects, which are now being implemented in well-known scientific centers of Europe and Japan. On the second day the workshop participants discussed the latest achievements of physicists, chemists, biologists and geologists in the use of IR and THz radiation technologies to solve topical applied problems.
On the final day of the seminar participants had the opportunity to familiarize with the latest achievements of MEPhI research teams; guests visited innovative laboratories of the University.
On December 14 MEPhI will be visited by Dr Graziano Venanzoni responsible from LNF-INFN (Italy) in the project “g-2” (FERMILAB), with another young project participant Antonio Anastasi (University of Messina). The discussion of MEPhI participation in this project, started six months ago, will be continued during the planned visit within the next seminar AARP, which will include two lectures on present conditions of the project “g-2” and on methods of computer modeling of physical processes.
