YerPhI Press Releases Archive

Educational seminars for young scientists of AANL (May 21, 2013)

A series of educational seminars for young scientists, graduate students and undergraduates started in Yerevan Physics Institute (National Laboratory after A.Alikhanyan) They are targeted to fill the gaps in the education of young researchers by means of the review lectures given by the Armenian an foreign...
Armenia become member of SCOSTEP! (Feb 8, 2013)

We are pleased to announce that Armenia is now a member of Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) and by the decision of Prof. Samvel Harutyunyan, the chair of State science committee, Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, Director of Yerevan physics institute, has been nominated as the...
A.Alikhanyan national lab purchase high purity germanium gamma-detector for nuclear physics... (Feb 4, 2013)

In fall 2012 the GEM series HPGe (High-Purity Germanium Coaxial Detector System) Model GEM15P4-70 (ORTEC) was launched in the department of isotopes investigation and production. Detector was completed by the DSPEC-LF Digital Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (analyzer) (see Figure 1 and 2). Figure 1...
KHEBR laser technological complex, which is unique with its power is launched in AANL (Dec 13, 2012)

On 15th October in A. Alikhanian National Scientific Laboratory the work on "Khebr -1 A" was completed. Laser technological complex with laser power of 1000 W has put into...
Ground Breaking ceremony of Nuclear Medecine Center, October 30, 2012 (Nov 6, 2012)

Today President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Armenian Center of Excellence in Oncology which will be situated next to the A. Alikhanian National Scientific Laboratory. The first project of creating Nuclear Medicine Center was developed by Yerevan Physics...
Visit in Dubna, 3-4 May 2012 (May 7, 2012)

On May 3-4 of 2012 Armenian delegation: Nerses Yeritsyan, Deputy Chair of the Central Bank of Armenia and Chair of the Board of Trustees of A.Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AANL), Arman Khachatryan, CEO at National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia , AANL Director Ashot Chilingarian, visited the...
National Scientific laboratory after A. I.Alikhanyan young scientist Artyom Hovhanisyan... (Mar 1, 2012)

“Haykyan” award ceremony was held in the Armenian Youth Foundation on February 29, and prizes were given to most outstanding youth/students organizations of the year 2011, as well as to young scientists. This year a prize was first awarded for the nomination “The best young scientific...
The prime minister visited the National Scientific laboratory after A. I.Alikhanyan (Jan 6, 2012)

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan on the New Year eve-December 28, visited the National Scientific laboratory after A. Alikhanyan. He held a meeting with a group of scientists of the theoretical department of the laboratory and the board of directors AANL. He listened to the issues and concerns put...
Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics is established in A.Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AANL) (Nov 17, 2011)

Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics created in AANL on the basis of the Cosmology group of the Theoretical division will continue the traditional studies of nonlinear problems, chaotic phenomena in cosmology and astrophysics. The observational discoveries of the recent decades on the cosmic microwave...
The workshop “Low dimensional physics and gauge principles” (Oct 20, 2011)

The workshop Low dimensional physics and gauge principles http://crd.yerphi.am/Conferences/lowdim2011/home was held during September 21-29, 2011. The worskhop brought together experts on low-dimensional systems and modern quantum field theory, cosmology and...
Launching of the detector in Yerevan (Oct 20, 2011)

The research of the solar terrestrial connections were started by Cosmic ray division (CRD) of A. Alikhanyan national lab (AANL) more than 10 years ago with the establishment of Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC, Chilingarian et al., 2003, 2005). In 2011 ASEC got new extension by installing modern...
Dr. Gerald Fishman, Astrophysicist at NASAs Marshall Center, Received 2011 Shaw Prize in... (Oct 5, 2011)

Dr. Gerald J. Fishman, astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and very good friend of CRD received the 2011 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. Fishman is being recognized for his leadership in research that has shed new light on the space phenomena known as gamma-ray...
Registration of solar flares in the CRD Aragats station on September 6- 8 (Sep 17, 2011)

On September 6-8 four flares occurred on the Sun, and the flares originated Coronal Mass Ejections (MEs) inducing geomagnetic storms on the arrival to the Earth. The first flare was invoked. From 1283 solar active region solar flare was unleashed at on September 6, at 01:50 UT, the GOES 15 satellite...
ANL scientists participated in the exhibition EXPO Armenia 2011, September 9-11, 2011. (Sep 17, 2011)

For the first time scientists and engineers of A.AlikhanyanIn national lab (AANL) participated in the exhibition EXPO Armenia 2011. The following products were demonstrated during the exhibition: Beam sensors/scanners for the accelerative diagnostics...
Participation of Armenian physicists in the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2011) (Sep 17, 2011)

The 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2011) hosted and organized by the Institute of High Energy Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was held in Beijing from August 11 to August 18, 2011. Following the tradition of past International Cosmic Ray Conferences, the ICRC2011 dealt...
New consortium to develop medical equipment (Sep 17, 2011)

On September 2, 2011 a memorandum was signed between the National center of oncology (NCO), Institute of Informatics and Automatation Problems of NAS (IIAP), Institute of Physical Research (IPR) and A. IAlikhanyan National Laboratory represented by directors of institutions: H.M. Galstyan, V.G. Sahakyan,...
CERN launches LHC@home 2.0 volunteer computing initiative (Sep 2, 2011)

On August 8, researchers at CERN began public beta testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home 2.0. This allows volunteers for the first time to provide their home and PC resources for performing simulations of the production of final states in the collisions of protons at...
Armenian physicists discover important relations between space born and surface observations of... (Mar 2, 2011)

Figure 1. Symmetry of the terrestrial gamma flashes (TGFs) and thunderstorm ground enhancements (TGEs)
The 24-th Solar Activity Cycle Produce the First Violent Blast: Now Ramping up Toward a Solar... (Mar 1, 2011)

The sun unleashed its strongest solar flare in nearly five years on Feb 15 2011, sending a massive wave of charged particles toward Earth. The Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), a huge cloud of charged particles, reached the Earth in approximately 3 days and triggered a sizeable geomagnetic storm and a deep Forbush...
SEVAN Network expanding to India Jawaharlal Nehru University (Jan 25, 2011)

The network of particle detectors located at middle to low latitudes, SEVAN (SpaceEnvironmental Viewing and Analysis Network) aims to improve fundamental researches of the particle acceleration in the vicinity of the sun and the space environments. The new type of particle detectors will simultaneously measure...
Pre-Big-Bang observational signatures studied in Gurzadyan-Penrose paper and a new scale in... (Dec 22, 2010)

The possibility of observational signatures of pre-Big-Bang violent activity is discussed in the newly released paper by V.G.Gurzadyan and R.Penrose http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3706U Sir R.Penrose (Oxford), one of the classic names in modern science, author of profound books, has developed a theory,...
First Forbush decrease of the 24th Solar Activity Cycle registered by Aragats Neutron Monitors (Aug 24, 2010)

After long absolutely calm period, Sun started to presentfirst signs of activity. A shock detected by the Ace Spacecraft at 3August indicated the arrival of at least one CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) causedby the long duration C3 flare on August 1. Figure 1. Extreme ultraviolet snapshot...
Aragats physicists publish an important discovery about thunderstorms! (Aug 24, 2010)

Cosmic Ray research on Mt. Aragats started in 1943 by the physicists Artem and Abraham Alikhanians. Since then research at the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of the Alikhanyan National Laboratory continues at two high altitude research stations on Mt. Aragats, as well as the headquarters in Yerevan. CRD is one of...
First scientific publication from LHC 7 TeV run appears in Phys. Rev. Letters! (Aug 5, 2010)

Since 1995 group from Yerevan Physics Institute headed by Albert Sirunyan participates in the preparation of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS ) experiment. YerPhI group was involved in the detectors design and construction, data analysis software development as well as in test beam data taking &...
Participation of the Armenian Delegation in the 31-st All- Russian conference on cosmic rays,... (Jul 13, 2010)

The conference concurred with memorable dates, to which special sessions were devoted: 100-year anniversary of Sergei Nikolaevich Vernov, 50 years after the discovery of the “knee” in energy spectrum of cosmic rays, A session devoted to the memory of recently passed Georgi Timofeevich...
Birthday of A.I. Alikhanyan (Jun 24, 2010)

On June 24 the 102 anniversary of YerPhI first director Artem Alikhanian the emeritus and present employees of YerPhI celebrated laying flowers to his monument. The day became remarkable with another important event: RA government publicized the June 17 decision on transformation of the “A. I....
The Alikhanyan National Lab Makes Another Step in the Isotope Production Activities (Jun 24, 2010)

During spring 2010 a new metallic cathode with high emission properties has been installed in an electron gun of 40 MeV linear accelerator (Linac, used previously as injector for the 6 GeV electron synchrotron). The first tests demonstrated the high quality of the electron beam parameters...
New Limit on the Light Speed Isotropy (Jun 10, 2010)

The possibility of using the Compton Edge approach for high precision probing of the light speed isotropy was suggested by Gurzadyan and Margarian in 1996 [1]. The idea is to trace the stability of the lowest energy of the Compton scattered relativistic electrons on monochromatic laser photons at many...
CRD Provides Daily Information from Aragats (May 19, 2010)

The newly initiated “Aragats today” page in CRD home site provides current information on the Aragats mountain meteorological conditions and Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC ) operation. In the new page you can find recent meteorological observations including...
A reportage devoted to YerPhI (May 18, 2010)

The “Hraparakum” program on H1 TV station shot a footage about the Yerevan Physics institute. The program referred to the overall history, highlighted the achievements and rendered to the perspectives of YerPhI. The footage was shot both in the YerPhI Yerevan headquarters and in Aragats high...
The First Geomagnetic Effect of New 24th Solar Activity Cycle Detected at Aragats Space... (May 8, 2010)

The geomagnetic storm began at 08:55 UT on Monday, April 5, 2010. Space weather storm level reached Strong (G3) levels due to the Geomagnetic Storms Space Weather Scale. The source of the storming is an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection associated with a weak solar flare that occurred in Active...
Visit of the Delegation of Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) to Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (May 7, 2010)

On April 12, 2010 the YerPhI delegation (Ashot Chilingarian, Valery Nikogossyan) visited Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (HIT). Armenian physicists were introduced with the world largest facility for the ion beam therapy and discussed with HIT research director Thomas Haberer the possibilities of...
CERN Press Release-Beams collided at 7 TeV (Apr 2, 2010)

YerPhI three groups participates in the LHC ( ATLAS, ALICE , CMS) experiments. Since 1995 all three groups actively participated in the detectors design and construction, sw development as well as in test beam data taking and analysis. Now YerPhI groups participates in LHC...
The Armenian GRID expands (Feb 5, 2010)

Memorandum of Understanding On the Creation and Development of National Armenian GRID Infrastructure This is to confirm that the Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia, �Yerevan Physics Institute, the institute for Informatics and Automation Problems...
Report on the participation in the Management Committee Meeting of the COST Action ES0803... (Dec 6, 2009)

COST is one of the European Union (EU) most successful instruments of scientific projects' promotion on the European level. There are hundreds of COST projects in numerous fields of science with thousands researchers from all the European and non-European countries (unfortunately only 2 from Armenia)...
Report on participation in the Armenian high tech industry (ArmTech) Congress� 09, Silicon Valley... (Dec 2, 2009)

1. On November 4 I was among the delegation accompanying the PM of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan in his visits to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Berkley University. At SLAC Mr. Sargsyan met with Director of SLAC – Dr. Persis Drell, Associate Lab Director - Dr. Dale Knutson,...
Visit of YerPhI delegation to Zagreb and Athens (Sep 20, 2009)

On September 4-18 the YerPhI delegation (Chilingarian A., Mailyan B., Hovhannisyan A.) participated in the International conference on the Heliophysical Phenomena and Earth Environment in Shibenik, Croatia. The regional meeting of Balkanian-Black and Caspian sea was held for the third time within the framework...
Radiomeasurements to start at Aragats (Aug 24, 2009)

CRD continues to add new measurement techniques to the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) facilities. Among important heliospace and geospace parameters are solar flare correlated radiobursts. Along with monitoring of secondary cosmic ray fluxes and geomagnetic field disturbances, the radio patterns...
Magnetometric Measurements started in Armenia! (Jul 27, 2009)

Magnetometric station LEMI-417, commissioned by Lviv center of Space Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, was installed in Nor Amberd, 2000 m above sea level (the same type of station with added electrical field sensors will be installed at Aragats, 3200 above sea level in September)....
Valery Nikoghosyan - 70 (Jul 26, 2009)

On July 26 is the 70 year anniversary of Valery Nikogosyan- Candidate of Technical Sciences, head of the Yerevan Physics Institute�s Accelerator Physics and Technical department. During 45 years of activities he has made a huge contribution in the institute�s accelerator physics and...
A.Chilingarian�s report on participation in the 31-st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC),... (Jul 16, 2009)

759 delegates from 36 countries presented 389 oral and 541 poster presentations. The Armenian delegation included: Chilingarian Ashot, Martirosov Romen, Grabsky Varlen (on leave from Mexican High Energy Physics Institute), Mailyan Bagrat. 12 reports were presented:...
The International Theoretical and Practical Conference �Innovative Way of Commonwealth Countries... (Jul 1, 2009)

The international theoretical and practical conference “The innovative way of Commonwealth countries development; Strategies and Perspectives” was held in Armenia from June 28 to July 4. The works presented at the conference reflect the results of interdisciplinary and comparative researches,...
ISTC International Workshop Advanced X-ray Imaging, 16-18 June Tsakhkadzor, Armenia (Jun 19, 2009)

Representatives of eight scientific institutions of Armenia, France and Russia took part in the workshop organized by the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), with the support of ISTC and the State Committee on the Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia. The presented reports and round...
Conference �Advanced Materials and Devices for Space Applications�, ISTC Thematic Workshop, May... (Jun 4, 2009)

The workshop held at the Yerevan Physics Institute, supported by ISTC and was devoted to review the advances in space environment, space factors modeling, test of materials and devices in space modeling equipment, work out of new materials for the use in space and radiation conditions. International...
The �Accelerators probing the fundamental physics�, GRAAL Collaboration workshop was held June... (Jun 3, 2009)

The objectives of the workshop were the accelerator experiments involving high precision measurements to probe the Lorentz invariance, the isotropy of the speed of light and related basic concepts. The results obtained at the GRAAL facility at European Synchrotron Research Facility in Grenoble on the Compton...
The first LINK Sunday school held in Nor Amberd International Conference Center (May 25, 2009)

The International Institute of Management �Link� provides the Professional Certificate in management of the British Open University. The program started in 2003 and delivers three British Open University Business School programmes aimed at developing management in the CIS countries: �...
Aragats Physicists Measure Energy Spectra of the Runaway electrons _ an important step to solve... (May 21, 2009)

A. Chilingarian, A.Daryan, L.Melkumyan The cosmic rays ionize enough of the atmosphere to be questioned as possible triggers of the thunderstorms. A mechanism proposed by A. Gurevich and his collaborators suggests that showers of energetic particles produced by high-energy cosmic rays in the...
Experts Visit the Future Nuclear Medicine Center in YerPhI (May 6, 2009)

May 6, members of the governmental commission and experts from Ion Beam Applications (IBA), a world leading producer of accelerators and services for the radiation diagnostics, visited YerPhI. Discussions were hold on the technical issues of Cyclotron to be purchased and installed in YerPhI, accelerator...
Alikhanyan prize for the best presentation at the Nor Amberd conference was presented to Bagrat... (May 5, 2009)

The Alikhanyan prize established for the young scientist having delivered the best presentation at the FORGES-2008 conference hold in Nor Amberd was awarded to Bagrat Mailyan on May 5 for his paper entitled: “Daily variation in intensity of different species of secondary cosmic rays as...
Jubilee of Aida Akopova (May 4, 2009)

On May 4 YerPhI veterans gathered at the director’s office to celebrate the jubilee of Aida Akopova: one of the oldest employees of YerPhI, the leader of the nuclear emulsion group. Figure 1. Aida Akopova, Tina Asatiani and Nina Demekhina Figure 2. Eric...
Visit of the CNCP delegation to YerPhI (May 4, 2009)

On May 4th the delegation of the UK Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership (CNCP) programme visited YerPhI. The commercialization of scientific ideas and technologies is the core of CNCP’s strategy for creating secure, well- paid and satisfactory jobs for former nuclear weapons specialists. While...
New Members of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Apr 22, 2009)

At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held on April 22, 2009, new foreign members were nominated as academy members, among them former head of the YerPhI astrophysics group Prof. Felix Aharonian (Irish advanced studies center and Max Plank Institute, Heidelberg), Prof. Adrian Parsegian (NHI)...
YerPhI External Board started its work (Apr 20, 2009)

On April 20, 2009 the chair of the YerPhI external board academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Oganissyan met with YerPhI scientists engaged in preparing reports for the board nominated by the RA government. Yuri Oganissyan explained what kind of documents should be prepared, how the meetings of the...
Visit of Brazilian Ambassador to YerPhI (Mar 6, 2009)

March 6, 2009, the ambassador of Brazil, her excellence Renate Still, Vice Consul, Press and Trade Attache of Brazilian Embassy, Mr. Hovsep N. Seferyan visited the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) to discuss the possibilities of scientific collaboration between YerPhI and Brazilian universities. Brazil...
Visit of Professor Kapitsa to Yerevan Physics Institute (Feb 13, 2009)

February 13, 2009, by invitation of YerPhI director Ashot Chilingarian, Prof. Sergei Kapitsa, the renowned Russian physicist and educator visited Yerevan Physics Institute. Professor Kapitsa is well known by his scientific research in area of accelerator physics, his multiyear lecturing in Moscow Physics...
A New Monument to Artem Alikhanian at Yerevan Physics Institute (Feb 12, 2009)

In a memorable ceremony the new monument to Arem Alikhanian was unveiled at the main square of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), on February 12, 2009.�� Artem Alikhanian is the founder and first director of Yerevan Physics institute, currently bearing his name. The 100 year anniversary of the...

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