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Nuclear Physics with Neutrons - Fundamental
and Applied Investigations

• Preparation of experiments at IREN:
  
• Design and construction of nuclear targets polarized by the dynamic pumping method for experiments of time invariance verification in five-fold correlation.
  
  
• Continuation of the development of an optically polarized gaseous nuclear target with isotopes ^129,131Xe under pressure of up to 10 atm.
  
  
• Completion of a series of measurements of absolute alignment values of ²³⁵U nuclei, modernization of the cryostat. Analysis of the obtained results, planning of new experiments with IREN.
  
  
• Analysis of the accumulated information on the cascades of two-step gamma-transitions to reveal new possibilities of experimental research of characteristics of the superfluid to normal Fermi-liquid phase transition at IREN.
  
  
• Experiments at EG-5:
  
• Continuation of measurements of the total, partial or differential cross sections of the (n,p) or (n,) reactions on ¹⁴N or ³⁵Cl nuclei in the range of neutron energies from several keV to 7 MeV.
  
  
• Development of neutron spectrometry method using the shift of the primary gamma-transition line in radiation capture with the help of correlation gamma-spectroscopy at the KOKOS facility. Measurements of the energy dependence of the partial cross sections of the Cr-52 (n, ) and ⁶⁴Zn(n, ) reactions at neutron energies from 10 to 100 keV.
  
  
• Completion of the calibration of the high energy neutron detector HEND.
  
  
• Experiments at IBR-2:
  
• Continuation of measurements of the anisotropy of neutron scattering by noble gases as a function of neutron energy, determination of the parameters of the (n,e)-interaction.
  
  
• Completion of measurements of the neutron spin precision in the process of polarized neutron transmission through a polarized target at the KOLKHIDA facility.
  
  
• Determination of a possible reason for the PNC effect of neutron spin rotation in Pb following the spectroscopy method of radiation capture of low energy neutrons by the ²⁰⁴Pb isotope with the KOKOS facility.
  
  
• Continuation of measurements of the delayed neutron yields from the thermal neutron induced fission of minor actinide nuclei with a modernized DRENIZ facility.
  
  
• Completion of measurements of the thermal neutron cross section of the ²¹Ne(n, ) ¹⁸O reaction with the help of an ionization chamber for gaseous samples.
  
  
• PROJECT REGATA - the carrying out of investigations of heavy metal pollution in a number of regions in Russia, including Moscow region, Ural region, Baikal region, Kola Peninsula region, and in some regions in Bulgaria, Poland, Moldova, Romania, China, and Egypt. Elaboration of the experimental substantiation of possible development of new biotechnologies
  
  
• Experiments at non-JINR neutron sources:
  
• Completion of measurements of the ¹⁴⁹Sm (n, ) reaction cross section in the neutron energy range from several eV to ~ 500 keV at ORELA facility, Oak-Ridge, USA.
  
  
• Completion of measurements of the total, partial and differential cross section of the (n,) reaction on ⁶⁴Zn in the neutron energy interval from 1 to 8 MeV at the Van-de-Graaf accelerator in the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics of Peking University.
  
  
• Investigations in UCN physics at the reactor of ILL, Grenoble, France.
  
  
• Continuation of experiments in the field of optics of cold and ultracold neutrons at the reactor of ILL, Grenoble, France.
  
  
• Completion of experiments to measure the interaction time of neutrons with quantum objects in matter at the reactor of ILL, Grenoble, France.
  
  
• Preparation and carrying out of test experiments on the nn scattering at the JAGUAR reactor (Snezhinsk, Russia), design and construction of the facility for a full-scale experiment.
  
  
• Measurement of cross sections of neutron-induced fission of minor actinides in the neutron energy range up to 250 MeV at the n_-TOF source in CERN.

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