Asman is eager to ensure that Swedish physicists and graduate students have access to the discovery opportunities that data from the Tevatron will provide. So, like hundreds of their fellow physicists worldwide, they have decided to come to Fermilab, where, starting next March, high-energy protons will once again be blazing a trail to the heart of matter. She expects that as many as 12 Swedish physicists and students will ultimately become DZero collaborators. At CDF, Budagov said, the Dubna group will concentrate on the physics of the top and b quarks. The Dubna group of about seven scientists and students can hardly wait to get started.
New physics is target number one.
Dubna, the home of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, has a proud tradition of forefront research in the physical sciences, and in fact Dubna scientists also collaborate at DZero. Budagov wears a watch commemorating the 50th anniversary of accelerator operation at the laboratory, located at the confluence of the Volga, Dubna and Sestra Rivers. Budagov described JINR, founded in 1956, as a sort of Eastern Bloc version of CERN, with member states including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Poland, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, North Korea and, most recently, Vietnam, among others. The Dubna laboratory currently operates active programs in particle physics, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. After a number of extraordinarily difficult years for physics research in Russia and other former Soviet member states, the future of JINR at Dubna is now looking somewhat brighter.