Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by Gersh Budker in 1959. Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of Budker.
Despite its name, the centre was not involved either with military atomic science or nuclear reactors instead, its concentration was on high-energy physics and particle physics. In 1961 the institute began building VEP-1, the first particle accelerator in the Soviet Union which collided two beams of particles, just a few months after the ADA collider became operational at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy in February 1961. The BINP employs over 3000 people, and hosts research groups and facilities.
In July 2023, the institute was put onto the USA sanction list in the context of Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Active facilities

VEPP-4 – e⁺e⁻ collider for the energy range 2E_beam up to 12 GeV
*KEDR – detector for particle physics at VEPP-4
*ROKK-1 – facility for experiments with high energy polarized gamma-ray beams at VEPP-4
VEPP-2000 – e⁺e⁻ collider for the energy range 2E_beam=0.4-2.0 GeV
*SND - Spherical Neutral Detector for particle physics experiments at VEPP-2000
*CMD-3 – Creogenic Magnetic Detector for particle physics experiments at VEPP-2000
Electron cooling experiments
Plasma physics experiments
*GOL3 – long open plasma trap
*GDL - gas-dynamic plasma trap
Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre
*NovoFEL – Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser based on 4-turn ERL
BNCT – accelerator-based neutron source for boron neutron capture cancer therapy experiments

From 1993 to 2001, BINP contributed toward the construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, providing equipment including beamline magnets.