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NRD Computer INFRAstructure and INFOstructure
Main tasks are:
to develop the NRD centralized computer resources (hardware and
software);
to develop the NRD IP connectivity;
to develop the information systems;
to develop the NRD LAN.
General Group Info
The computer hardware resources.
Centralized NRD Communication Computer.
The Computer Systems Group Staff.
Last update: Fri Iul 26 12:33:38 MSK 1996
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(1997 update)
[According to information from the PNPI Web Internet Homepage, the
Institute Structure at the present time is as follows:
The Neutron Research Department: under the direction of Vladimir Nazarenko. The
status of the Neutron Research Department of PNPI as presented on the PNPI Web
Homepage on the internet provides information on the latest developments in that
department. The material in brackets is directly from that homepage: [Fundamental
research using neutron radiation is a major scientific direction pursued at Petersburg
Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The history
of its initiation is closely connected with the name of Professor L. I. Rusinov and
dates back to the mid-50s, when construction of a research nuclear reactor WWR-M
was started in Gatchina, in the affiliation of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, to
be commissioned at the end of 1959. In the years . . .since then, the scope of
scientific research has become established, teams of reactor specialists and
physicists have formed, the reactor power was raised from 10 to 18 MW, the
experimental possibilities have been braodened considerably due to the development
of such modern devices as cold and ultracold neutron sources, neutron guide and
polarizing systems, as well as the development and implementation of a number of
major techniques and installations. Among the works that have won world-wide
recognition are: discovery and investigation of parity violation effects in nucleonnucleon,
neutron-nuclear interactions, and in the fission of heavy nuclei; the search
for the nuetron electric dipole moment; precision measurements of the neutron
lifetime and of the correlation constants for the free neutron decay; a method for
measuring small(delta E/E down to 10^-7) X-ray line shifts due to Chemical and
nuclear effects; investigation of the atomic and magnetic structure and low-field
electrodynamics of high temperature superconducting materials; experimental
detection of quantum effects in zero spin fluctuations; investigation of magnetic
excitation in amorphous and spin glass systems; and many others. The development
of a number of original techniques has won for PNPI a place among the leading
neutron research laboratories in the world working with polarized, cold, and ultra
cold neutrons. . . .In April 1992, the decision of the Russian Academy of Sciences
has transformed the neutron research laboratories together with the associated
support groups into the Neutron Research Department with the rights of an Institute
of the RAS.
The Department includes three scientific divisions (Neutron Physics Division,
Condensed State Research Division, and Division of Reactor Physics and
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