Participating countries and international organizations:
Belgium, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam. 

Issues addressed and main goals of research:
Synthesis and investigation of the properties of nuclei at stability limits. Investigation of the mechanisms of heavy-ion-induced reactions. Study of the physical and chemical properties of heavy and superheavy elements. 

Expected major results in the current year:

• Experiments for studying complete fusion reactions with ⁵⁰Ti. 
  
  
• Preparing for and conducting first test experiments on the synthesis of isotopes of element 115 (Mc) in the ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am reaction at the SHE Factory. 
  
  
• Experiments on the measurement of the multiplicity of prompt neutrons from the spontaneous fission of Sg isotopes in the reactions with ⁵⁴Cr and heavy isotopes of Rf in the reactions with ²²Ne.
  Searching for rare reaction channels with the evaporation of charged particles, studying the decay properties of heavy Rf and Sg isotopes using the separator SHELS + GABRIELA.
  Preparation for experiments on the spectroscopy studies of the decay properties of the ²⁸⁸Mc nuclide and its daughter products. 
  
  
• Experiments on the study of the chemical properties of element 113 in the ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am reaction. Preparation for experiments aimed to study the chemistry of SHE at the SHE Factory. 
  
  
• Measurements of the cross-sections of xn channels for the complete fusion reactions ⁴⁰Ar+ ¹⁴⁴Sm, ⁴⁰Ar+ ¹⁶⁴Er, ⁴⁰Ca+ ¹⁴⁴Nd, and ⁴⁸Ca+ ¹⁴²Nd. 
  
  
• Investigation of the mass-energy distributions of fragments produced in the reactions ¹⁸O+ ²³²Th, ²³⁸U, ²²Ne+ ²³²Th, ²³⁸U, and⁴⁸Ca+ ¹⁵⁴Sm.
  Study of multi-body decays of low-excited heavy nuclei. 
  Study of multicluster decay of heavy and superheavy nuclei.
  Development of physics set-ups. 
  
  
• Investigation of the structure of the exotic nuclei ⁷Н, ¹⁷Ne, and ²⁶Si using radioactive beams at the ACCULINNA-1 and ACCULINNA-2 set-ups. 
  
  
• Experiments with the ¹⁶О and ²²Ne heavy-ion beams. Measurement of yields of multi-nucleon transfer reaction products. Measurement of total reaction cross-sections and those of individual channels using high-efficiency methods for registration and identification of products with low-intensity beams of exotic nuclei (10 ³-10 ⁵ s ^-1). 
  
  
• Theoretical studies of the mechanisms of heavy-ion-induced reactions. 
  
  
• Development and update of the network knowledge base on nuclear physics. 
  
  
• Investigation of shapes and sizes of exotic nuclei employing laser spectroscopy methods. 
  
  

List of Activities
	Activity or Experiment	Leaders	Status
	Laboratory or other Division of JINR Responsible person	Main researchers
1.	Synthesis of new isotopes  of superheavy elements at DGFRS	V.K. Utyonkov	Data taking
	FLNR	F.Sh. Abdullin, N.D. Kovrijnykh, D.A. Kuznetsov, A.N. Polyakov, O.V. Petrushkin, R.N. Sagaidak, V.G. Subbotin, A.M. Sukhov, I.V. Shirokovsky, M.V. Shumeiko, A.S. Sviridchenkov, D.I. Solov'ev, L. Schlattauer, Yu.S. Tsyganov, A.A. Voinov, A.M. Zubareva
2.	-, - and - spectroscopy  of heavy nuclei at the SHELS separator	A.V. Yeremin	Data taking
	FLNR	V.I. Chepigin, M.L. Chelnokov, A.V. Isaev, I.N. Izosimov, D.E. Katrasev, A.N. Kuznetsov, A.A. Kuznetsova, O.N. Malyshev, Yu.A. Popov, V.M. Popov, A.G. Popeko, E.A. Sokol, A.I. Svirikhin, V.A. Sbitnev, M.S. Tezekbaeva
3.	Chemical properties of superheavy  elements	S.N. Dmitriev	Data taking
	FLNR	N.V. Aksenov, Yu.V. Albin, A.Yu. Bodrov, G.A. Bozhikov, N.S. Gustova, V.Ya. Lebedev, K.V. Lebedev, A.Sh. Madumarov, E.V. Melnik, A.V. Rykhlyuk, A.V. Sabelnikov, G.Ya. Starodub, G.K. Vostokin, M.G. Voronyuk, I. Zvara
4.	Experiments at the magnetic analyzer of superheavy atoms  MASHA	A.M. Rodin	Data taking
	FLNR	E.V. Chernusheva, A.V. Guljaev, A.V. Guljaeva, D. Kamas, A.B. Komarov, L. Krupa, A.S. Novoselov, A.Opihal, A.V. Podshibyakin, V.S. Salamatin, S.V. Stepantsov, V.Yu. Vedeneev, S.A. Yukhimchuk
5.	Study of the processes  of fusion-fission, quasi-fission and  multi-nucleon transfer reactions. CORSET-DEMON, CORSAR, and  MiniFOBOS set-ups	M.G. Itkis	Data taking
	FLNR	A.A. Alexandrov, I.A. Alexandrova, I.N. Dyatlov, O.V. Falomkina, Z.I. Gorya'nova, Yu.M. Itkis, D.V. Kamanin, V.V. Kirokasian, E.M. Kozulin, N.I. Kozulina, G.N. Knyazheva, E.A. Kuznetsova, K.V. Novikov, A. Pan, I,V, Pchelintsev, Yu.V. Pyatkov, E.O. Savelieva, Yu.B. Semenov, A.N. Solodov, A.O. Strekalovsky, O.V. Strekalovskiy, I.V. Vorob'ev, A.O. Zhukova, V.E. Zhuchko
	LIT	P.V. Goncharov, G.A. Ososkov, A.V. Uzhinsky, V.B. Zlokazov
6.	Study of the structure of exotic  nuclei near and beyond the drip-lines at the ACCULINNA-1,  ACCULINNA-2 and COMBAS fragment separators	A.S. Fomichev	Data taking
	FLNR	A.G. Artukh, E. Batchuluun, S.G. Belogurov, A.A. Bezbakh, N. Carjan, V. Chudoba, M.S. Golovkov, L.V. Grigorenko, A.V. Gorshkov, E.M. Gazeeva, V.A. Gorshkov, G. Kaminski, S.A. Krupko, S.A. Klygin, G.A. Kononenko, D.A. Kislukha, K.A. May, B. Mauyey, I.A. Muzalevskiy, E.Yu. Nikolskii, Yu.L. Parfenova, S.A. Rimzhanova, Yu.M. Sereda, S.I. Sidorchuk, R.S. Slepnev, P.G. Sharov, A. Serikov, G.M. Ter-Akopian, R. Wolski, A.N. Vorontsov, B. Zalewski
	BLTP	S.N. Ershov, N.B. Shulgina
7.	Investigation of reactions induced  by stable and radioactive ion beams leading to the formation of exotic  nuclei. Development of MAVR and  MULTI set-ups	Yu.E. Penionzhkevich	Data taking
	FLNR	D.T. Aznabaev, M.P. Ivanov, S.M. Lukyanov, V.A. Maslov, K.O. Mendibaev, Z.D. Pokrovskaya, R.V. Revenko, N.K. Skobelev, Yu.G. Sobolev, I. Sivacek, V.I. Smirnov, D.A. Testov
8.	Theoretical studies of nuclear reaction mechanisms	A.V. Karpov
	FLNR	E.A. Cherepanov, A.S. Denikin, Yu.A. Muzichka, M.A. Naumenko, V.A. Rachkov, V.V. Samarin, V.V. Saiko
9.	Development and update of the network knowledge base on nuclear physics	A.V. Karpov A.S. Denikin	Data taking
	FLNR	M.A. Naumenko, V.A. Rachkov, V.V. Samarin, V.V. Saiko
	LIT	E.I. Alexandov, V.V. Korenkov, P.V. Zrelov
10.	Laser spectroscopy of isotopes	S.G. Zemlyanoy	Data taking
	FLNR	K.A. Avvakumov, G.N. Myshinskiy, V.I. Zhemenik, B. Zuzaan