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• ITMO Researchers Solve Key Issue for Compact Particle Accelerators

  Physicists at ITMO University have become the first to explain the nature of the skewed wake effect in particle accelerators. Their analytical theory shows how a tilt of a flat particle beam causes a reverse rotation of its electromagnetic field. The effect leads to unstable behavior of particles in next-gen compact accelerators and large colliders. The discovery could help predict the behavior of asymmetrical beams and make associated experiments safer and more efficient. The study was published in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.

  09.07.2025

• Well-Known but Never Observed: Dark Matter Explained

  Researchers worldwide are speeding up particles in colliders and digging deep underground to find axions or WIMPs. No, these are not superhero codenames – but hypothetical particles that are some of the proposed candidates for dark matter. What is dark matter? Why is it worth studying? And how can scholars see the unseen? Let’s find out with Dmitry Glazov, a senior researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics.

  23.10.2023

• Why is Quantum Physics so Hard to Understand?

  Quantum mechanics is deemed the hardest part of physics. Systems with quantum behavior don’t follow the rules that we are used to, they are hard to see and hard to “feel”, can have controversial features, exist in several different states at the same time - and even change depending on whether they are observed or not. Valerii Kozin, PhD student at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering and researcher at the International Laboratory of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures, talks about the ways of researching such unpredictable phenomena, and why study quantum mechanics in the first place.

  25.06.2020

• Tours of CERN, or What to See at the Largest Collider Ever

  The Hadron Collider has long become more than just a major experimental facility, but a part of modern culture and a sort of Mecca for science-minded people, as well. Naturally, tours of CERN Laboratory where the collider is located are most popular.

  06.01.2017