The Laboratory of Particle Physics (LPP) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The lab was established to carry out experiments in high-energy physics at the most advanced accelerators. Its first director was Igor Savin, who played a major role in promoting particle physics at JINR.
The early days of the laboratory were marked by its participation in the NA4 and SMC experiments at CERN and in the large experimental programme at the 70 GeV accelerator at IHEP, Protvino. Now LPP physicists, headed by Vladimir Kekelidze, are participating in the CERN NA48 and NA58 (COMPASS) experiments; the H1, HERMES and HERA-B projects at DESY; the STAR experiment at Brookhaven; and the Borexino project at Gran Sasso.
The LPP physicists are actively involved in both the CMS experiment being one of the founders of the RDMS (Russia and Dubna member states) collaboration and the ATLAS project at CERN’s LHC collider.
Special attention is paid to the development of new detectors and detector technologies. From the outset, accelerator physics has been one of the main activities of LPP. Now it covers participation in projects at CERN and DESY, the development of accelerators for radiation technology and the study of some conceptual aspects of the future “two-beam” colliders.
