DNP Seminar

07-02-2025 11:00 Conference hall (bldg. 42, 3rd floor)

"Beryllium: Precious Damn Metal"
Ruskov I.N. (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Physics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, TANGRA collaboration)

This lecture is devoted to beryllium, a strategically important, valuable, but highly toxic metal of exceptional importance both for understanding the processes of element formation in the Universe and for its application in modern technologies. In various forms, it is widely used in the automotive industry, astro- and aerospace technology, X-ray devices, robotics, as well as in nuclear and thermonuclear installations and other areas. The speaker will provide a brief overview of some past, current and future experimental studies of nuclear reactions of beryllium-9 with neutrons, emphasizing the need to obtain new, more reliable and robust nuclear data, including within the framework of the international research project TANGRA. Such data are important for a better understanding the mechanisms of nuclear reactions with neutrons and for their successful use in neutron-nuclear science and technology.