The "
Elementary
Particle
Physics
Laboratory" (
EPPL) named in the past as
"The Nuclear Structure Laboratory" was formed in
1963 at PNPI (at that time PNPI was a branch institute
of the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute (
LPTI).
Up to 2002, this laboratory was headed
by Prof.
A.A.Vorobyov.
Later, the Laboratory was headed by
Alkhazov G.D. (2002-2021).
In 2022,
V.T.Kim was elected head of
EPPL.
The first investigations were devoted to study of ternary fission
(at the PNPI nuclear reactor) and of proton-proton and proton-nucleus
elastic scattering (at the
PNPI 1 GeV proton accelerator). However,
practically from the very beginning the activity of the laboratory was not
limited to investigations at the PNPI basic facilities, but an active
collaboration with other nuclear centres was carried out.
In 1973, an intensive program on nuclear structure studies was started in
collaboration with the
Saclay (Saturn) laboratory. Then, experiments on
small angle scattering of hadrons were performed at CERN using the
recoil detector
IKAR worked out at PNPI. Very fruitful investigations of
the muon catalized dd- and dt- fusion were carried out at PNPI and at
PSI (in collaboration with PNPI).
At present, the Elementary Particle Physics Laboratory participates in the international project
CMS
at
CERN (Switzerland).
(More see in page
Main physics results obtained with the participation of EPPL physicists).