JINR-CUBA SCHOOL:
"HADRON STRUCTURE AND HADRONIC MATTER PHYSICS"
Organizers
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF)
Specialized Diagnostic and Therapy Center (CIMEQ-CEDT)
Havana University / InSTEC (UH-INSTEC)
Date: December 1-5, 2025
Location: Hotel NH Capri, La Habana, Cuba
Scientific Scope of the School
The School is aimed at providing insights into the contemporary status of high-energy physics, with emphasis on collisions of heavy ions and hadrons, as well as providing an overview of research topics of the NICA collider at JINR.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is a large international intergovernmental scientific organization known all around the world for its outstanding contribution to fundamental physics. A significant complex of core facilities, such as research reactor and accelerators. Special attention is paid to the NICA accelerator complex at JINR, where the most fundamental problems related to the strongly interacting matter will be investigated. This unique facility will allow to perform both applied and fundamental research in different fields of science and technology.
SCHOOL PROGRAM
A series of 3 daily lectures are forseen plus 1.5 hour discussion session.
Three parallel sessions of lectures are planned:
Theoretical Physics (TP)
Experimental Physics (EP)
Accelerator Physics (AP)
The following topics will be addressed:
General
- Brief information about JINR.
- Accelerator complex NICA.
Theoretical Physics
- Description of dense fermonic systems.
- Introduction to Lattice QCD.
- Electromagnetic signatures in heavy ion collisions.
- Vortices and particle spins in heavy-ion collisions.
- Relativistic heavy-ion collisions and Nuclear Equation of State.
- Quantum effective action and QCD vacuum.
- Collective excitations and hadronization in QCD: hadron spectrum, decay constants, form-factors.
- Strong electromagnetic field as trigger of deconfinement.
- QCD under extreme conditions: baryon density, magnetic field and relativistic rotation.
- Nonlinear electrodynamics: theoretical predictions and experimental challenges.
- Magnetized strange quark matter and signals of gravitational waves.
Experimental Physics
- The Standard Model of particle physics: the status and problems
- Data processing in HEP experiments.
- Offline software / GEANT4 simulations / ROOT.
- Experimental methods. Nuclear structure.
- Particle detectors.
- BES programs in relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Design of large experimental facilities in heavy ion physics. The MDP experiment.
- Introduction to spin physics. The SPD experiment.
Accelerator Physics
- Cyclotrons for proton therapy.
- Superconducting cyclotron MSC-230.
- RF systems of cyclotrons for proton therapy.
- Advances in 18 MeV Cyclotron Technology.
- Radioisotope production with 18 MeV cyclotrons: emerging opportunities for nuclear medicine theranostics.
All lectures will be given by the scientists from JINR and JINR-partner organizations.
Working language of the School is English.
No participation fees.
Target audience: Students and PhD students, young scientists of the University of Havana, ICIMAF, other universities and research institutes in Cuba. Students from Latin American countries may participate.
Participants will be selected by the program committee based on the submitted applications.
Registration is open for conference attendees (students and young researchers).
Registration deadline: October 18, 2025
Additional information will be posted later.
