Samara State University continues to implement the project “Development of Quantum Chromodynamics for Test of Standard Model and Search Effects of New Physics at Energies of the Large Hadron Collider” within the framework of Federal Target Program “Scientific, academic and teaching staff of innovative Russia in 2009-2013, Action 1.5 “Teams of scientists conducting research in physics and astronomy under supervision of visiting researchers”.
Prof. V. Saleev, deputy administrator on behalf of Samara State University visited the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Juelich Research Center in November 2011. He gave a speech on the topic "Heavy quarkonium production in the Regge limit of quantum chromodynamics: from Tevatron to LHC". Project manager Prof. N. Nikolaev, working at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Juelich, participated actively in the discussion of the presented results.
In the picture: Maksim Nefedov, diploma student at the Faculty of Physics, Samara State University and Prof. N. Nikolaev near one of the laboratories of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Juelich Research Center.
Maksim Nefedov, a participant of the project, had a two-month internship in one of the leading scientific centers in Germany; the center focusing on fundamental and applied researches in nuclear physics and other apllied sciences. The internship resulted in a scientific publication; besides Maksim got invaluable experience of team-work and participation in research workshops and, finally, a good deal of impressions and information that he still needs to reflect on. Staff members of Nuclear Physics Institute together with invited scientists conduct experiments on a one-of-a-kind accelerator equipped for precision study of spin effects in hadron and nuclear physics. A new accelerator COSY is being built; it will help the physicians to fill the gaps in existing experimental data of nucleon structure. Together with Maksim Nefedov there worked post-graduate students from Germany and Poland, invited researchers from Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics of Russian Academy of Science, Obninsk Institute of Nuclear Energy, Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics.