03-2-1100-2010/2021
 
Priority: 1
   
Status: Extended


Non-Accelerator Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

 

Leaders:     V.B. Brudanin
A. Kovalik
E.A. Yakushev


Participating countries and international organizations:
Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan. 

Issues addressed and main goals of research:
Search for and investigation of double-neutrino and neutrinoless modes of double beta-decay, clarification of the neutrino nature Majorana or Dirac, absolute neutrino mass scale and hierarchies. Search for the neutrino magnetic moment and dark matter. Investigation of galactic and extragalactic neutrino sources, diffusive neutrino cosmic background, search for exotic particles (monopoles). Application of the neutrino detector for a distant investigation of process inside of the reactor core of Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. Search for sterile neutrinos. Spectroscopy of nuclei far from stability. Development of new methods for charged and neutral particle detection. 

Expected major results in the current year:

  • Data taking in the 2 0-decay measurements of 106Cd, 82Se, 150Nd, 76Ge with the SuperNEMO and GERDA spectrometers. 

  • Processing of experimental data and determination of T1/2(22) for 48Ca, 96Zr, 130Te, 116Cd, 150Nd, 82Se and 76Ge. 

  • Data taking with HPGe-based low-background spectrometer at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. Search for a signal of coherent neutrino scattering on the Germanium nuclei. Search for neutrino magnetic moment on the level sensitivity of ~ 10 -12 µB

  • Continuation of data taking in the EDELWEISS experiment with new detectors operating with an energy threshold of 0.3 keV suitable for the extra-low mass WIMP region. Analysis of previously accumulated data. 

  • Research and development of the semiconductor-based detecting systems for the GERDA and MAJORANA experiments. Continuation of the data taking in both experiments. 

  • Data taking and development of the 3-rd and 4-th clusters of the Baikal-GVD telescope (Baikal project). 

  • Investigation of KLL and KMM Auger electrons in 67Ga and 152,154,155Eu decays. 

  • Development and testing of new low-threshold (~ 200 eV) HPGe detectors for searching the coherent neutrino scattering, as well as plastic scintillator detectors for their active shielding. 

  • Testing of certain systems of the DANSS neutrino detector. Data taking in order to search for the sterile neutrino. Data analysis and publication. Development of the industrial reactor monitoring with the DANSS spectrometer. 

List of projects:
  Project Leader Priority 
(period of realisation)
1. SuperNEMO O.I. Kochetov 1   (2013-2021)
2. GEMMA-II V.B. Brudanin 1   (2010-2021)
3. EDELWEISS-II E.A. Yakushev 1   (2010-2021)
4. G&M (GERDA) K.N. Gusev 1   (2010-2021)
5. DANSS V.B. Brudanin
V.G. Egorov
1   (2011-2021)
6. BAIKAL I.A. Belolaptikov
V.B. Brudanin
1   (2009-2023)

 

List of Activities
  Activity or Experiment Leaders
Status
  Laboratory or other
Division of JINR
Responsible person
Main researchers
1. SuperNEMO Project O.I. Kochetov
R&D
Data taking
  DLNP V.A. Bednyakov, D. Filosofov, I.I. Kamnev, D. Karaivanov, Yu. Shitov V.V. Timkin, V.I. Tretyak, O.V. Vagina
  BLTP F. Simkovic
2. TGV Project N.I. Rukhadze
I. Shtekl
Data taking
  DLNP V.G. Sandukovsky, S.L. Katulina
  BLTP F. Simkovic
3. G&M (GERDA-MAJORANA Project) K.N. Gusev
Preparation
Data taking
  DLNP V.B. Brudanin, A.A. Klimenko, A.V. Lubashevsky, S.L. Katulina, N.S Rumyantseva, V.G. Sandukovsky, E.A. Shevchik, S.I. Vasilyev, I.V. Zhitnikov, D.R. Zinatulina
  BLTP F. Simkovic
4. GEMMA-III Project V.B. Brudanin 
A.V. Lybashevsky
E.A. Yakushev
Modernization
Data taking
  DLNP V.V. Belov, V.G. Egorov, M.V. Fomina, D.V. Medvedev, D.V. Ponomarev, V.G. Sandukovsky, M.V. Shirchenko, S.V. Rozov, I.E. Rozova, I.V. Zhitnikov, D.R. Zinatulina
5. EDELWEISS-LT Project E.A. Yakushev 
S.V. Rozov
Modernization
Data taking
  DLNP V.B. Brudanin, D.V. Filosofov, Z. Kalaninova, A.V. Lubashevsky, N.A. Mirzaev, L.L. Perevoshchikov, D.V. Ponomarev, F.V. Rakhimov, I.E. Rozova, K.V. Shakhov
6. BAIKAL Project I.A. Belolaptikov
V.B. Brudanin
Preparation
Data taking
  DLNP R. Dvornicky, A.A. Doroshenko, K.V. Golubkov, V.G. Egorov, K.V. Konishev, M.M. Kolbin, A.V. Korobchenko,
    A.A. Klimenko, V.P. Lomov, M.B. Milenin, V. Nazari, D.P. Petukhov, E.N. Pliskovski, A.I. Panfilov, I.E. Rozova, V.D. Rushay, A.V. Salamatin, G.B. Safronov, M.V. Shirchenko
7. DANSS Project V.B. Brudanin
V.G. Egorov
Preparation
  DLNP V.V. Belov, M.V. Fomina, A.S. Kuznetsov, I.E. Rozova, N.S. Rumyantseva, M.V. Shirchenko, E.A. Shevchik, D.R. Zinatulina, I.V. Zhitnikov

 

Collaboration
Country or International
Organization
City Institute or Laboratory
Armenia Yerevan YSU  
    Foundation ANSL  
Belgium Leuven KU Leuven  
Bulgaria Sofia INRNE BAS  
  Plovdiv PU  
Czech Republic Prague CTU  
  Rez NPI CAS  
Finland Jyvaskyla UJ  
France Orsay CSNSM  
    LAL  
  Bordeaux CENBG  
  Caen UNICAEN  
Germany Heidelberg MPIK  
  Mainz JGU  
  Munich TUM  
Kazakhstan Almaty INP  
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar NRC NUM  
    IPT MAS  
Poland Krakow NINP PAS  
    AGH-UST  
  Lublin UMCS  
  Otwock-Swierk NCBJ  
Romania Bucharest IFIN - HH  
    UB  
Russia Moscow, Troitsk INR RAS  
    HPPI RAS  
  Gatchina NRC KI PNPI  
  Voronezh VSU  
  Moscow NRC KI  
    SC "VNIINM"  
    NNRU "MEPhI"  
    ITEP  
    SINP MSU  
    INTRA  
    RADON  
  Dubna Dubna State Univ.  
  Sarov VNIIEF  
  St. Petersburg SPbSU  
    Ioffe Institute  
  Tomsk NPI TPU  
    IHCE SB RAS  
Slovakia Bratislava CU  
    IEE SAS  
Ukraine Kiev KINR NASU  
  Kharkov ISC NASU  
United Kingdom London UCL  
  Manchester UoM  
USA Irvine, CA UCI  
  Austin, TX UT  
Uzbekistan Tashkent INP AS RUz  
    IAP NUU  
  Samarkand SSU