Bolshie Koty 2014
Conferences, 29 August 2014
On 5 – 12 July the 14th International School on Elementary Particle Physics and Astrophysics was held in the settlement Bolshie Koty, on the bank of Baikal Lake in the territory of the biological station of Irkutsk state University. About a hundred participants, including lecturers, teachers, physicists, students and post-graduates from Irkutsk, Moscow, Dubna, Troitsk, Novosibirsk and other Russian scientific centres attended the event. There were also participants from Germany, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain and Belarus. Following the tradition of many years, the Organizing Committee was headed by Chairman of the Theoretical Physics Chair of ISU Professor A.Vall. The scientific programme of the school overlapped the main fundamentals of modern physics: the Standard model (SM), cosmology, astrophysics and neutrino physics.
Two courses of lectures were devoted to the theoretical and experimental parts of SM. The School had invited specialists who could present the modern elaborations in this field in the form easy-to-understand by different participants. Theoretical aspects of SM were reported by I.Ivanov (Ghent University, Belgium), and experimental issues by I.Boiko (DLNP JINR).
Two courses of lectures were on cosmology and astrophysics. Professor D.Gorbunov (INP RAS, Russia) made a report on theoretical aspects, and R.Burenin (ISR RAS, Russia) read a course of lectures on experimental cosmology.
Two courses were given on neutrino physics that is regarded a link between cosmology and the Standard Model. The lectures by O.Smirnov (LHEP JINR), who works in the BOREXINO experiment, were of the review type. The second lecturer – L.Lyudhova (INFN, Italy) works in the same experiment and she spoke about the detection of solar and geo-neutrinos.
There were also made reports at the school that were related to the main topics. A.Kozhevnikov (IM SD RAS, Russia) spoke on grapheme. The lecture by A.Gladyshev (BLTP JINR) was devoted to physics beyond the Standard Model: supersymmetries. A.Guskov (DLNP JINR) gave a lecture “Studies of inner structure of hadrons” and spoke about methods how to study the structure of protons that consist of quarks, what fractions of moment and spin have quarks. One of the school veterans I.Ginzburg (IM SD RAS, Russia) read a lecture “Opportunities to find the non-minimal mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking on colliders”.
Above all, the participants were much impressed by the excursion about the Baikal nature park, a visit to the Baikal Museum and new acquaintances that may become fruitful scientific collaboration in future.
Two courses of lectures were devoted to the theoretical and experimental parts of SM. The School had invited specialists who could present the modern elaborations in this field in the form easy-to-understand by different participants. Theoretical aspects of SM were reported by I.Ivanov (Ghent University, Belgium), and experimental issues by I.Boiko (DLNP JINR).
Two courses of lectures were on cosmology and astrophysics. Professor D.Gorbunov (INP RAS, Russia) made a report on theoretical aspects, and R.Burenin (ISR RAS, Russia) read a course of lectures on experimental cosmology.
Two courses were given on neutrino physics that is regarded a link between cosmology and the Standard Model. The lectures by O.Smirnov (LHEP JINR), who works in the BOREXINO experiment, were of the review type. The second lecturer – L.Lyudhova (INFN, Italy) works in the same experiment and she spoke about the detection of solar and geo-neutrinos.
There were also made reports at the school that were related to the main topics. A.Kozhevnikov (IM SD RAS, Russia) spoke on grapheme. The lecture by A.Gladyshev (BLTP JINR) was devoted to physics beyond the Standard Model: supersymmetries. A.Guskov (DLNP JINR) gave a lecture “Studies of inner structure of hadrons” and spoke about methods how to study the structure of protons that consist of quarks, what fractions of moment and spin have quarks. One of the school veterans I.Ginzburg (IM SD RAS, Russia) read a lecture “Opportunities to find the non-minimal mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking on colliders”.
Above all, the participants were much impressed by the excursion about the Baikal nature park, a visit to the Baikal Museum and new acquaintances that may become fruitful scientific collaboration in future.