Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Russian Институт ядерной физики им. Г. И. Будкера СО РАН, Eng. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, BINP ) is a research institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. It was founded under the direction of Gersch Izkowitsch Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics 1958 (English Institute of Nuclear Physics, INP) as its director until his death in 1977. In honor of the Budker Institute was renamed the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and is directed by Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinski since 1977.
The BINP is adjacent to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, one of Russia's largest and one of the world's leading research institutes for high energy physics. It conducts basic research on the structure of matter by means of large particle accelerators, such as several accelerator facilities for collision of electrons and their antiparticles, the positrons. The Electron -positron collider VEPP -2000 and VEPP -4M achieve this particle energies up to 1 GeV and 6 GeV. The BINP has developed in the 1960s with the VEP -1 one of the world's first storage rings for particle collisions, an Electron - Electron collider with electron energies of 160 MeV, and with the VEPP -2 the first electron -positron collider at all, with particle energies up to 700 MeV.
Furthermore, components for accelerator systems are developed. Thus the Budker of the mid-1960s, first proposed electron cooling, to minimize oscillations in particle beams, realized for the first time in the 1970s at BINP. The Institute was later among other things, instrumental in the development and construction of the electron cooling of the SIS - 18 at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, the Cooler Synchrotron COSY at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Low Energy Ion Ring at CERN.
Other research focuses on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion and the development of powerful sources of synchrotron radiation, such as free-electron lasers. The BINP is training ground for about 200 students of Novosibirsk State University and the National Technical University of Novosibirsk. The Institute employs more than 2,800 employees were in 2012, including about 400 scientists and 1000 employees of the production department for experimental and accelerator facilities.