PROTVINO (outside Moscow), September 23 (AVN) -- The scientific and technical board of the Institute of the Physics of High Energies on Thursday approved a timetable for carrying out international experiments on a proton synchrotron with a capacity of 70 billion electron-volts.
The institute's scientific secretary Yuri Ryabov told the Military News Agency that the speeding-up of the accelerator would complete in mid-October after prophylactic work was over.
Scientists from Russia, the U.S., Italy, Japan, Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus will be able to start experiments in November or December, according to Ryabov.
Experiments with a neutron detector of a bunch of elementary particles with the help of bent crystals will be especially interesting, he said.
A joint experiment involving the Neptune installation will be continued.
The institute's fundamental research is used for the creation of new kinds of weapon.