SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER International Round Table on Applied Research and Innovations @ NICA

15 Sept 2021, 09:00 → 16 Sept 2021, 20:00 Europe/Moscow

Conference Hall (Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Grigory Trubnikov (JINR), Richard Lednický (VBLHEP JINR), Vladimir Kekelidze (JINR)

JINR initiates a new series of scientific meetings, the Round Tables, aimed at promoting applied research at NICA.

NICA (Nuclotron based Ion Collider fAcility) is a new accelerator complex being constructed at the international intergovernmental organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to study properties of dense baryonic matter. NICA team is also intended to launch an internationally visible user programme for applied research with ion beams focused on but not limited to biomedical applications, radiation materials science and nuclear power technology issues.

The first International Round Table on Applied Research and Innovations @ NICA will be held on 15-16 September 2021 in Dubna as a hybrid event combining a major virtual component with a limited in-person presence of local participants. It will address a broad range of research topics with regards to future experiments at newly constructed beamlines.

The meeting will feature invited talks on the following particular topics:

• Extending the application of particle accelerators in research and industry;
• Heavy ion facilities for life science and medicine;
• Bioethics and animal use in experiments at heavy ion facilities;
• Space radiation protection research;
• Material science with heavy ions;
• Radiation hardness control of electronic components for space application;
• Radiation research and developments to solve the nuclear waste problem;
• NICA user programme at the international landscape.

The programme of the meeting will also include a hybrid round table discussions on the most requested directions of the envisaged user programme for applied research at NICA with the final aim to estimate the level of interest of user community to newly available options. The Round Table is expected to be attended by visible experts in related fields of applied research with ion beams as well as will reflect the capacity of JINR’s interlaboratory cooperation.

The virtual sessions of the Round Table will be held with the Zoom videoconferencing platform. The direct link to join the event remotely will be available at the Connection Details page.

NICA_Round_Table_2021_Poster.pdf

Scientific_Programme_NICA_Round_Table_2021.pdf

Wednesday 15 September

09:00 → 10:00 Registration of in-person participants; Test connection for virtual attendees

10:00 → 10:10 Opening of a Day 1: Welcome message from chairs and officials

10:10 → 12:10 Introductory Session: Solicited talks by invited speakers

10:10 JINR overview

Speaker: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR)

JINR_Overview_NICA_Round_Table_15-16_Sept_2021_fin.pdf

10:30 NICA Project: Implementation status and prospects for applied research

Speaker: Vladimir Kekelidze (LHEP, JINR)

02 NICA_ARIADNA.pdf

10:55 Status of areas for applied research at the NICA complex

Speaker: Evgeny Syresin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Researches)

03_Applied researches at NICA-2021.pdf

11:20 Opportunities in biomedical research at new high-energy particle accelerator facilities

Speaker: Marco Durante (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany)

Durante JINR 150921.pdf

11:45 The RADNEXT facility network and related opportunities for future users and partners Rubén

Speaker: García Alía (CERN)

2021-09_RADNEXT_at_NICA.pdf

12:10 → 12:20 Coffee Break

12:20 → 14:00 Heavy-Ion Facilities for Life Science and Medical Applications: Solicited Talks by Invited Experts (Panel 1)

12:20 The use of particle accelerator in space research

Speaker: Tom Hei (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA)

12:45 Biophysical modeling neurological damage from heavy ion irradiation

Speaker: Francis Cucinotta (University of Nevada, USA)

13:10 Proposals on the topic of modern biomedical research based on the NICA accelerator complex

Speaker: Oleg Orlov (Institute of Biomedical Problems RAS, Russia)

13:35 Accelerator-based generation of solar particle events (SPE) and galactic cosmic rays (GCR)

Speaker: Schuy Christoph (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany)

14:00 → 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 → 17:05 Heavy-Ion Facilities for Life Science and Medical Applications: Solicited Talks by Invited Experts (Panel 2)

15:00 JINR radiobiological research program with heavy ion beams of the NICA accelerator complex

Speaker: Aleksandr Bugay (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

REPORT_BIOMAT_LRB.pdf

15:25 Integrative physiology: On possible cooperation

Speaker: Ludmila Filaretova (Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russia)

15:50 Radiation Biophysics research activities at iThemba LABS

Speaker: Charlot Vandevoorde (iThemba LABS, South Africa)

iTHEMBALABS_CVandevoorde_NICA Round Table_final.pdf

16:15 Radiobiological research at Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center: focus on DNA double-strand breaks

Speaker: Andreyan Osipov (Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Russia)

13 Osipov 15.09.2021.pdf

16:40 The moral and scientific justification for the use of animals in scientific research

Speaker: Kirk Leech (European Animal Research Association)

17:05 → 17:20 Coffee Break

17:20 → 18:20 Round Table Discussion: User demands on the NICA beamlines for life science and medical applications

18:20 → 19:10 Virtual and in-person excursion to the NICA complex

19:10 → 19:30 Transfer of in-person participants to Dubna Hotel

19:30 → 20:30 Welcome reception for in-person participants

Thursday 16 September

09:00 → 10:00 Test connection for virtual attendees

10:00 → 10:05 Opening of a Day 2

10:05 → 11:45 Radiation Materials Science and Radiation Hardness: Solicited Talks by Invited Experts (Panel 1)

10:05 Material science with MeV-GeV heavy ions: experimental challenges and applications

Speaker: Christina Trautmann (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany)

10:30 Testing radiation effects on microelectronics by using heavy ions

Speaker: Alessandro Paccagnella (University of Padua, Italy)

10:55 The modelling of nuclear planetology space experiments using NICA complex

Speaker: Maksim Litvak (Space Research Institute RAS, Russia)

Litvak_presentation_NICA_compressed.pdf

11:20 Current and perspective URSC – ISDE activities in radiation hardness assurance of electronic devices and biological organism reaction to heavy ion irradiation

Speaker: Aleksandr Koziukov (Branch of JSC United Rocket and Space Corporation – Institute of Space Device Engineering, Russia)

11:45 → 11:55 Coffee Break

11:55 → 13:35 Radiation Materials Science and Radiation Hardness: Solicited Talks by Invited Experts (Panel 2)

11:55 ESA strategy on radiation testing capabilities

Speaker: Anastasia Pesce (European Space Agency)

ESA needs on SEE laser Testing -AP-F pptx.pdf

12:20 Single event effects hardness assurance of electronic devices using new and existing testing facilities

Speaker: Anatoly Smolin (SPELS JSC & National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia)

Smolin_SPELS_Dubna_2021.pdf

12:45 Swift heavy ion tracks in solids and development of nano- and microstructured functional materials

Speaker: Pavel Apel (JINR)

Presentation (protected)

13:10 Research of radiation resistance of sensors, detectors and materials for NICA collider at irradiation facility of the IBR-2 reactor

Speaker: Maxim Bulavin (RF)

08 NICA Round Table 2021_Bulavin.pdf

13:35 → 14:35 Lunch Break

14:35 → 16:15 Nuclear Power Technology Applications: Solicited talks by invited experts

14:35 A challenge to solve the nuclear waste problem

Speaker: Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Japan)

15:00 Potential of thermal ADS for incineration of nuclear waste and breeding of fissile fuel from thorium

Speaker: Reza Hashemi-Nezhad (The University of Sydney, Australia)

15:25 Accelerator-driven system options: a value analysis and practical implications

Speaker: Vitaly Pronskikh (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, TBC)

nica-pronskikh1.pdf

15:50 How to get the necessary neutron and ion reaction data for ADTT

Speaker: Vladimír Wagner (Nuclear Physics Institute CAS, Czech Republic)

Dubna_round_table_Wagner.pdf

Presentation_NICA_Round_table_Wagner.mp4

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Round Table Discussion: User demands on the NICA beamlines for radiation materials science and nuclear power technology applications

Gurskaya_Dolgopolov.pdf

Radenko.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 Accepting the Memorandum of the International Round Table

17:50 → 17:55 Closure of the publicly accessible sessions of the meeting

17:55 → 18:00 Technical break

18:00 → 19:00 First hybrid meeting of the Extended NICA Applied Research and Innovation Committee: Restricted Session

19:00 → 19:15 Transfer of in-person participants to Dubna Hotel