A Guide to the Russian Academy of Sciences - University of Texas ...

wigglers, crystals). We develop and fabricate dedicated sources of synchrotron
radiation. We develop and produce one- and two coordinate detectors for
experiments with synchrotron radiation. We invented and developed the optical
klystron, for obtaining the generation of coherent radiation ranging from the infrared
to the ultra-violet region of the spectrum. We are developing the most promising
approach to the generation of a powerful free electron laser for photochemical
studies and other technological applications such as the energy transfer from the
Earth to satellites in space.
The Institute is involved in mutually beneficial collaborations with many
laboratories and industrial enterprises: over one hundred experimental groups from
various research Institutions of Russia and many other countries use our facilities;
we are closely related to and actively collaborate with the European Center for
Nuclear Research CERN, National Laboratories and Universities of the USA,
Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden; at present, we
perform contract work on the development of novel research apparatus for large
foreign laboratories; we carry out mutual design and industrial work with many
Russian enterprises which have novel technologies - especially with AU ZVI
(Moscow); over one hundred and twenty of our powerful electron accelerators are
operating at various technological centers in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia,
Germany, Japan, China, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, South
Korea, Italy, India. The Institute is a reliable partner in carrying out joint research
and developments in the field of physics and has a good reputation in the world as a
supplier of high technological equipment for research and industrial purposes.
We have not escaped the problems encountered presently by Russian science. However,
despite this fact, we remain one of the largest Russian physics centers with an
indisputably high reputation in the world scientific community.
Powerful accelerators for industrial applications
One of the basic principles of research activity at the Budker INP is the fruitful combining
of the fundamental and applied investigations. Using the results of the fundamental
investigations, various types of accelerators applicable to the national economy have
been developed at the Institute. At present, two types of industrial accelerators are
manufactured: ILU and ELV. They are applied to different fields of the national
economy for the radiation treatment of polyethylene cable insulation to improve heat
resistance, radiation modification of heat-shrinkable tubes, radiation
desinsectization of grain, the treatment of sewage, etc. The accelerators designed
and manufactured at the Budker INP are successfully used in a lot of other
countries.
Accelerators Physics
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the inventors of the colliding beam
method which provides the major part of fundamental information in high energy
physics. The theory of quantum electrodynamics was validated on the first
installation VEP-1 (2 x 160 MeV) down to distances of $6 \times 10^{-14}$ cm (in
1965). Using the first-in-the-world experimental installation VEPP-2 (2 X 670
MeV) with colliding electron - positron beams, the main characteristics of rho- and
phi-mesons were obtained (1967).
Now there are two working colliding beams installations at the Budker INP:
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