Announcement of 63rd PAC for Particle Physics meeting

On 26 January 2026, the 63rd meeting of the JINR Programme Advisory Committee for Particle Physics will take place at the JINR International Conference Centre.

63rd PAC PP meeting programme

Committee’s Chair Itzhak Tserruya will give the first talk, dedicated to the implementation of the previous PAC PP meeting recommendations. JINR Vice-Director Vladimir Kekelidze will present information on the Resolution of the 137th JINR Scientific Council session (September 2025) and the decisions of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the JINR Members States (December 2025).

The PAC members will hear talks about the implementation of the ongoing particle physics projects of the Joint Institute: Deputy Head of the VBLHEP Accelerator Department Anatoly Sidorin will discuss the Nuclotron–NICA Project. VBLHEP Deputy Chief Engineer Konstantin Mukhin will give a talk on the development of the NICA Complex’s infrastructure. Updates on the MPD and SPD Experiments will be provided by collaboration spokespeople: VBLHEP Chief Researcher Victor Riabov and DLNP Deputy Director for Scientific Work Alexey Guskov.

Head of the VBLHEP JINR Department of Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron Mikhail Kapishin will make a proposal to prolong the BM@N Project. Talks will be presented on the scientific results obtained by JINR groups in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: ALICE (Elena Rogochaya), ATLAS (Tatiana Lyubushkina), and CMS (Vladimir Karzhavin).

The scientific programme will consist of two presentations: DLNP Deputy Director Dmitry Naumov will discuss about JINR’s neutrino programme, and a VBLHEP senior researcher Maria Patsyuk will give a talk titled “Exclusive measurement of single-proton strength in the quasi-elastic ¹²C(p,2p)¹¹B reaction at high momentum transfer”.

The PAC members will meet with the JINR Directorate and adopt the committee recommendations. The meeting will finish with a discussion of poster presentations on particle physics studies by young researchers. The best presentation will be included in the agenda of the next JINR Scientific Council session.