Superior scientist

“If you think that science is entirely creativity, easy flight and all that kind, then you have no place in science. You have to be in love with this work and “wipe your pants” daily-precisely because of this love, ”says Rubakov. But for this love in the science of Valery Anatolyevich, colleagues value and respect.

The 60th anniversary of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which occurred on February 16, was celebrated in the past Wednesday, March 4, in Troitsk, at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. When Rubakov listened to a long congratulatory address in his honor, and then during short and long speeches the words “ingenious” and so on sounded, irony and discontent appeared on his face. “Well, when will all these glory end?” He thought he thought.

However, the very celebration of the chief researcher of IAI RAS, a professor at the Department of Quantum Statistics and the theory of the Field of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University, one of the most cited Russian scientists, was held in the form of a scientific seminar, at which three short reports were made (M.E. Shaposhnikov, Sergey Dubovsky from IAI RAS and Mikhail of Moscow State University).

The theme of the report of Mikhail Shapovnikov was “LHC, the scale of new physics and cosmology” based on the work of his joint article with Fedor Bezrukov “Why Should We Care ABOUT THE TOP Quark Yukawa Coumpling?” (Arxiv: 1411.1923) and conversations with Valery Rubakov in the dining room of Cern in 2014.

Professor of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland) dwelled on the story of the search for Bozon Higgs and its opening at the Atlas and CMS experiments on the Great Adron Collider on July 4, 2012, the search for new physics, in particular, super -symmetry (SYSY) , which are now being conducted. “The standard model is confirmed, found the last part, which was predicted by it. Deviations from the standard model have not yet been found. What can be said about the scale of new physics in this situation? Is there a new physicist between the scale of the Fermi (100 GEV) and the Planck (1019) GV? ”He thought.

“The answer to this question is very important. If yes, and this new physics is, then we can expect to find the collapse of the proton ... And the proton will live quite a little, say, in the reach of some experiments ... If there is a new physicist, then we can expect it to see it on the tank ... The difference between the huge mass [hypothetical] particle of the bar, which exists in gravity and a much smaller mass of the Higgs and other particles, is still not understood.

“If the answer is positive, then it can also be expected that poorly interacting massive particles of dark matter will be found. In her super -symmetry, the candidate is neutralino. ... There is another hypothetical particle-an axion that is associated with a violation of the SR-symmetry [combined parity]. ”

“If there is no new physics, then we are unlikely to see the decay of the proton. Then the proton lives about 1045 years and this is a large number that cannot be checked experimentally. On the Great Adron Collider, we will see nothing but the Higgs Bozon. We are unlikely to find weakly interacting particles of dark matter. Then there is no annihilation, there are no axions or these particles interact so weakly that it is impossible to detect them with any experimental methods. ”

“You see that the price of this issue - yes or not - is very high and in fact the rates are even higher.” Here Mikhail, laughing, spoke about his bet with V.A. Rubakov, which he and Fedor Bezrukov (from the Riken-BNL research center) were concluded on May 13, 2005. The dispute went around a certain model of new physics with low energies. “We advocated that the mass of a certain particle will be from 2 to 5 KEV, and the masses of two other particles will be in a certain area ... As you can see, the dispute was quite serious” (the listeners saw a receipt that the winner would get 10 bottles of an alcoholic beverage to choose a participant). In 2014, Mikhail Shaposhnikov and Fedor Bezrukov decided that they lost and began to “very seriously” to think what drink to purchase, but then they decided that the bet was not quite won, since the accuracy was not yet reached.

Another Parish of 1989 (Shaponikov is not sure of the date), he and Valery Rubakov concluded with two foreign colleagues (Ringwald and Mclerran). The subject of the dispute was as follows: the processes with the inconsistency of the bario in the standard model are exponentially suppressed with high energies. "We said that yes, and Andreas and Larry, that not." As a result, Rubakov’s opponents lost the dispute in 2003. “And they lost not after any experimental discoveries, but solely thanks to the theoretical discoveries of Valery Anatolyevich and his colleagues. There was a bottle at the stake, ”said Shaposhnikov.

“They stood on the stake on their bottle of whiskey, on a liter, and you and I have 10 each,” Valery Anatolyevich corrected him. The Russians risked more, but won a scientific dispute.

Then Mikhail stopped to determine the energy scale of the new physics, based on all data available now. “How can this be done? Find some inconsistencies in the standard model and understand how much they can be fixed on. One of the important points is the masses and oscillations of neutrinos, which are absent in the standard model ... There is no dark matter in this model either. ” In the same model, nothing can be said about the bariogenesis, the state of the universe in the period of 10-34-10-32 seconds from the moment of the large explosion. Then Shaposhnikov spoke about the self -complication of the standard model.

Watch the full video recording of his report and answers to questions, as well as a file with his presentation.

Video recording of the report by M. Sazhina (Gaisch of Moscow State University), dedicated to cosmological gravitational waves, polarization of relict radiation and the results of the experiments "Planck" and bicep2:

After the end of three reports, colleagues Valery Anatolyevich began to give him gifts. And the anniversary was amazed at the ingenuity of friends.

Dubna physicists (the United Institute of Nuclear Research) gave him a telescope, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vasily Nezhtumov from Arzamas-a small model of an atomic bomb. Konstantin Zveznov from the State Astronomical Institute. Sternberg of Moscow State University presented the Globe of the Luna, colleagues from the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University - Sub. Head. The department of science and innovation Troitsk gave Rubakov a picture with a piece of black matter - a la reproduction of the “black square” of Malevich, since the academician “searches for dark matter”.

“I would like to say about Rubakov not as about a scientist, but about a social figure,” said Boris Stern at a banquet, a friend and a colleague, an astrophysicist and editor-in-chief of the Trinity Option. “He is not just a popularizer of science, but one of the faces of our science. When they call me from which television channel, they ask to comment on the Higgs boson. I tell them: why don't you call Rubakov? Yes, he doesn’t get out of us anyway, he had just been with us. In fact, it is very difficult to overestimate this role - the role of a person who, on behalf of scientists, appears to the general public and tells people complex things in a simple and clear language. Valera sets out very well, I listened to him many times and every time with pleasure.

Second: in 2013 there was a reform of the Academy of Sciences. Everyone was unhappy with this reform, but if anyone remembers, then a group of academicians and members of the scam was quickly formed, which stated that they would not be recorded in the new academy. The first was Valera Rubakov. This is a person who is known to everyone not only as a scientist, but also as a citizen. I do not know what is more important now in this situation and this country. Maybe even the second is a citizen scientist. ”

The wife of Rubakova Elvira Ivanovna immediately aptly remade this phrase into a “citizen-scientist”: “Well, a citizen-scientist, let everyone now speak out and say what they think about you,” she said, jokingly, her husband said.

PS “The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics” devoted a whole number to Rubakov’s anniversary, which included articles by the best authors ( first pages of the room ).

Photo gallery

A few photos and slides that were shown on the anniversary:

"It is necessary that mathematics" bounced off the teeth. " Especially the standard mathematics, which, say, is taught at the physical faculty of Moscow State University. It needs to be known in all details: where to make a cut in the function of a complex alternating or how to calculate any more or less standard integral. You will not have this tool in your hands - everything, you can’t do anything. Yes, and more advanced mathematics must be known, of course ” ( from an interview with 2014).

“And at the last lecture, shirts appeared, and this made a very strong impression on me, I have not met a person of this level before. Immediately there was a desire to get into this group. It was evident that a person loves and “knows how to do” physics, it was somehow immediately clear, ” recalls his student, physicist Dmitry Gorbunov (in the photo on the right).

“Actually, we are not big buyers. Perhaps the most successful purchase was turned under honestly. And it was like that. We returned with Elya and with the guys from a hoodie camp on Lithuanian rivers and in the center of Vilnius, we came across an artist who sold his paintings. We especially liked one, also the center, but the old Tallinn ... We did not have a dime, and the artist believed us a word. Of course, we sent money to him, and the picture - here it is hanging on the wall ... ” (from an interview with the magazine" Peasant woman " 2001).

"Valery Rubakov: The biggest drama of our life was a violin. The youngest son, Seryozha, to his misfortune, was born with absolute hearing, and, of course, he was accepted into a music school on a violin. Elya fought on Seryoga, Seryoga fought on the violin and for some reason broke his musical fingers. ... Now everything was behind-the diploma was received, the violin on the mezzanine, and I myself have been alerted. In a musician, instead of a piano, I play the guitar, Alyosha, did not study music, but also plays the guitar.

Elvira Rubakova: We have four guitars, and so it is wonderful when all the guitarists are assembled ... " ( from an interview with the magazine" Peasant woman "2001).

“I love Dostoevsky. Almost everything. It is not easy to read it, but it acts well on the brains, and I return to his books from time to time. Perhaps Dostoevsky is my favorite writer ” ( from an interview with 2008).

See also:

• V.A. Rubakov about their teachers and paths of theorist, scientific schools and boundaries of cognitiveness of nature, about physical international and problems of Russian science
• The face of Russian science (B. Stern column to the anniversary of V. Rubakov)