On 21–26 September 2025, employees of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems participated in the 26th International Symposium on Spin Physics, SPIN2025, in Qingdao (Shandong Province, China). The Symposium on Spin Physics is a leading event that brings together theorists and experimentalists from all over the world working in high energy and nuclear spin physics.

Photo: The 26th International Symposium on Spin Physics (SPIN2025)

The symposium takes place every two years alternately in Asia, Europe, and America. Previous symposia were held in Charlottesville, Virginia (2008), Jülich, Germany (2010), Dubna, Russia (2012), Beijing, China (2014), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (2016), Ferrara, Italy (2018), Matsue, Japan (2021), and Durham, North Carolina (2023).

This year, almost 300 specialists from the world’s leading centres gathered in Qingdao. The participants presented 27 plenary and more than 170 sectional talks on the spin structure of nucleons and nuclei, spin effects in nuclear reactions and heavy ion collisions, spin physics beyond the Standard Model, quantum computing, methods for obtaining polarised beams and creating polarised targets, polarimetry, and future experiments in spin physics.

At plenary sessions, a DLNP Senior Researcher Anton Dolzhikov spoke about the history and prospects of the creation of polarised targets at JINR, and DLNP Deputy Director for Scientific Work Alexey Guskov talked on the progress of the SPD (Spin Physics Detector) Project at the NICA Accelerator Complex. A DLNP leading researcher Yuriy Uzikov gave a sectional talk on the possibility of the search for T-invariance violation in the scattering of polarised light nuclei.

During the symposium, a meeting of the International Spin Physics Committee took place, at which the decision was made to hold the 27th Symposium on Spin Physics in September 2027 in Glasgow, Scotland.