LOCATION: Protvino, Moscow Oblast
Address: 1 ulitsa Pobedy, Protvino, Serpukhov Rayon, Moscow Oblast 142281
Telephone:  (096) 77  1-34-42
FAX: (096) 7 74-28-24
[IHEP Web Site, http://www.ihep.su]{entered 3/17/04 CC}
HOMEPAGE: http://www.ihep.su/
SUBORDINATION: Ministry of Atomic Energy.
BACKGROUND:
The Institute of High Energy Physics was founded in October 1963. As of 31 December 2000 the institute employed 461 researchers, including 63 doctors of science, 227 candidates of science, one academician, and three corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
["Vazhneyshiye rezultaty fundamentalnykh issledovaniy v 2000 godu," IHEP Web Site, http://www.ihep.su/ihep/koii8/vihtig00.htm.]{entered 5/4/01 DK}
ACTIVITIES:
IHEP is a leading center in Russia for the study of elementary particle physics.  Other NIS institutes conduct particle physics research using IHEP's 70GeV accelerator, which has been in operation since 1967.[1]  A $937 million project to construct a 3TeV UNK accelerator was underway as of 1999.[2]
Sources:
[1]"General Review," IHEP Web Site, http://www.ihep.su/ihep/eng/ihepw.htm.
[2] "Itogi ukhodyashchego 1999 goda," IHEP Web Site, http://www.ihep.su/ihep/koi8/vihtig99.htm.{updated 5/4/01 DK}
 
ARCHIVED IHEP DEVELOPMENTS (For more recent developments, see the Nuclear Research Facilities Developments file):
 
10/14/97: ACCELERATOR AND ACCUMULATOR FACILITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Viktor N. Mikhailov spoke at IHEP's 30th anniversary celebration on 14 October 1997 about the construction of a new accelerator and accumulator facility.  A 21-kilometer circular tunnel has already been dug and 75 percent of the necessary equipment is ready.  Mikhailov declared that despite the difficult financial situation in Russia, his Ministry would support IHEP and he plans to come to the Institute in 2000 when the new facility begins operating.
[G. Dernovoy, "Vzglyad v trete tysyacheletiye: Ministr v Protvino", Atom-Pressa, October 1997, p. 1.] {Entered 11/5/98 LBB}

 

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