In the fall of 2020, we continue our now traditional course Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics. As in the previous year, the course is combined with the basic course "Introduction to Data Analysis", read within the framework of "Physics Horizons" for the second year students from the basic department of the INR RAS "Fundamental Interactions and Cosmology".

This year, the course will be partly remote and with minor format changes. Lectures will be more clearly separated from seminars and will be recorded. The workshops will include significantly more demonstrations of the specific program code used for data analysis. In particular, there will be several sessions of the so-called live-coding. Also, due to the transfer of lectures online (and the help of assistants), we plan to supplement the course program with separate lessons devoted to modern aspects of working with data, such as Monte Carlo methods and Bayesian methods.

The course will be announced online on Wednesday, September 9 at 5:05 pm  https://meet.google.com/fqh-izkt-rfu. To distribute relevant information on the course, as well as for questions and discussion, a Telegram group was created: https://t.me/mipt_statmethods.

Additional course materials will be available here.

The course is conducted with JetBrains Research informational support.

NPM laboratory was accepted into IAXO experiment collaboration. IAXO is an experiment in search for hypothetical particle axion, which could solve dark matter problem and CP-violation problem in hadronic sector. The experiment will be done in DESY accelerator center in Hamburg, but some activities are performed in Saragossa university in Spain and in Canfranc deep underground laboratory.

At current stage laboratory members will work on slow control and data acquisition system. Vasily Chernov will be working on a general design of the system and implementation in either TANGO-controls or DOOCS system, whereas other members will work on a design of Kotlin-mutiplatform API for device-servers, which in future will be used in conjunction both with industrial systems and for stand-alone data acquisition and control modules.

Registration for the course "Introduction to Scientific Programming in the Kotlin Language" is open. This year the course is officially supported by JetBrains and JetBrains Research.

Course page is available here. To participate in the course, fill the form.

Achievement Summary for 2019

The Laboratory of Nuclear Physics Methods (LNPM) consists of 9 research workers (including 4 postgraduate students) and 10 MIPT students.

In 2019 LNPM worked in the field of nucleus and particle non-accelerator physics. For the international GERDA/LEGEND experiments, the background intensity induced by solar neutrinos was calculated. The neutrino absorption cross section of the Ga-71 nucleus, which is necessary for interpreting data from the SAGE and GALEX neutrino telescopes, was studied. Junior LNPM researcher G.A. Koroteev, MIPT postgraduate students A.N. Fazliakhmetov and A.K. Vyborov reported on these works at the International Conference MEDEX'19 in Prague (27-31.05) and at the General Collaboration Meeting of GERDA in Zurich (24-26.06). The angular distributions of cosmic muon fluxes were studied in the low-background underground laboratory LSC (international project “Mu-monitor”, Canfranc, Spain). The results were published in Eur.Phys.J. P79 (2019), 721. Senior LNPM researcher A.A. Nozik participated in the IAXO International Collaboration Meeting in Zaragoza (23-25.10). The LNPM program of work in the IAXO experiment was agreed upon, and the official entry of the MIPT into the collaboration is being drawn up. In the laboratory jointly with the SRI of the RAS and the Yerevan Physical Institute were investigated models of the behavior of charged particles in thunderclouds. MIPT students E.M. Stadnichuk and T.M. Khamitov reported the results of their work at the international conference TEPA 2019 in Armenia (14-17.10).

At the LNPM has been formed a group dedicated to the development of computer technologies in particle physics. In 2019, infrastructure projects developed: data visualization systems, web configurators, working with databases, etc. A prototype of a new generation three-dimensional visualization system has been created. The laboratory, as part of the international BAT group, was developing tools for Bayesian analysis of data from physical experiments. Senior LNPM researcher A.A. Nozik and MIPT student T. Abramova participated in the BAT group workshop in Dortmund. The group is creating an international collaboration, in which LNPM, representing MIPT, will be one of the leading members. Under the leadership of the head of MIPT HEPL T.A. Aushev the Laboratory participates in the development of computer technologies for the international mega-project NICA (JINR, Dubna). LNPM actively cooperates with JetBrains(research work, contract for 19000$) and has joined the international scientific organization JetBrains Research.

According to the results of the work of the Laboratory of Nuclear Physical Experiment Methods in 2019, 8 articles were published in indexed international journals and 14 reports were made at international scientific conferences.

Publications and conferences

The list of publications and conferences attended by laboratory staff can be found here.

Added QUARKS-2020 conference page

Next year, held every two years, the international QUARKS seminar will be held with the financial support of MIPT. Conference page can be found here. Conference site is here.

Cooperation with JetBrains Research is ongoing

Laboratory page periodically updates at JetBrains Research site. The main project developing in this half-year is three-dimensional visualization for simulation tasks and Event Display based on Kotlin-Multiplatform technology. Project repository is here. Event Display will be used at NICA experiments. We are planning to perform at KotlinConf-2019!

Collaborations

The process of formal entry of the laboratory (and MIPT) into the IAXO collaboration has begun. Laboratory staff will be primarily concerned with the software infrastructure and the slow control system.

The process of forming the BAT collaboration has begun.

Publications

The page with publications and speeches at conferences for 2019 has been updated. There are a lot of them!