JINR-CUBA SCHOOL "HADRON STRUCTURE AND HADRONIC MATTER PHYSICS"
Organizers:
JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (JINR)
INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS, MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS (ICIMAF)
CENTER OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RESEARCH (CIMEQ)
HAVANA UNIVERSITY (UH-INSTEC)
Date: December 1-5, 2025
Location: Hotel Habana Libre, 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. A series of 3 daily lectures are forseen plus 1.5 hour discussion session. Lectures are organized in two parallel sesions: theoretical and experimental.
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.
JINR has established cooperation with about 1000 research centers and universities and annually organizes more than 40 international conferences and meetings. JINR employees publish about 1500 scientific papers and reports annually.
Subject fields: Theoretical and experimental high energy physics and accelerator techniques.
Subfields: QCD; hadron physics; laticce; strangeness; neutron stars; Bose-Einstein condensates; confinement; chiral symemetry relativistic heavy ion collisions; data analysis; spin physics; anysotropic flow; nuclear equation of state; theory-HEP; experiment-HEP; particle detectors; computing; Monte Carlo; accelerators.
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Three parallel sessions of lectures are planned:
Theoretical Physics (TP)
Experimental Physics (EP)
Accelerator Physics (AP)
The following topics will be addressed:
- Brief information about JINR. Introduction to elementary pparticle physics. The Standard Model.
- Observable quantities. Stage of experiments in high energy physics. Accelerators and detectors.
- Software and computing. Data processing. Simulation.
- Quantum chromodynamics as the theory of strong interactions: symmetries, confinement, QCD vacuum and its excitations.
- QCD at extreme conditions within Lattice QCD appproach.
- Theoretical methods for stringly interacting matter: relativistic heavy ions ans astrophysics.
- Spin physics. The SPD expperiment.
- Heavy ion collisions. The MPD experiment.
- Accelerator physics (cyclotrons, RF power, radiation therapy)
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.
The organizers provide the students from Latin America but Cuba with free accommodation in double rooms, but do not cover health insurance. The reimbursement of air transport expenses is not anticipated, but can be considered on request.
Participants will be selected by the program committee based on the submitted applications.
Additional information will be posted later.
Registration is open for lecturers.
