Press Releases

  • A new powerful source of atmospheric ionization was presented at the Biosphere conference in... (Oct 2, 2024)
    On October 1, 2024, Prague Metrology Institute organized a training course on the influence of extraterrestrial radiation on the biosphere. A. Chilingarian delivered a lecture on an overlooked atmospheric ionization source discovered on Aragats.  Occasionally, the day before, ScienceAlert highlighted the recent CRD paper recommended by APS. We share this issue...
  • Research papers published by CRD scientists in the first quarter of 2024 and citations summary (Apr 29, 2024)
    In a remarkable first quarter of 2024, scientists from the Cosmic Ray Division at the Alikhanyan National Laboratory have unveiled significant findings in high-energy atmospheric physics and solar physics, contributing important insights into thunderstorm-induced particle dynamics, magnetospheric disturbances, and atmospheric electric fields. These discoveries advance our...
  • 80th Anniversary of A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory (Jan 5, 2024)
    On December 22, 2023 a jubilee event was held at AANL to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the foundation of Alikhanyan National Scientific Laboratory (Yerevan Institute of Physics). In honor of this milestone, a commemorative medal was issued, recognizing a group of distinguished scientists for their years of dedicated work. These individuals played a crucial role in ensuring the...
  • The Cosmic Ray Division of the A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory has been accepted as... (Oct 30, 2023)
    Munich, 26 October: Johannes Knapp, representing the Cosmic Ray Division, receives the VAO accession certificate from the Chair of the VAO board, Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter. With already well-established institutions in the Alpine and Prealpine regions, such as the observatories Sonnblick (Austria), Jungfraujoch/Gornergrat (Switzerland), UFS...
  • Fifteen years of research in High-energy Physics in the Atmosphere: the number of citations to... (Oct 24, 2023)
    Mt. Aragats, located 3200 meters above sea level, near the southern peak on the beach of the large Kari Lake, is home to one of the world's biggest high-altitude cosmic-ray research stations. Physicists have been studying cosmic ray fluxes on Mt. Aragats since 1942 using various particle detectors such as mass spectrometers, calorimeters, transition radiation detectors, and...
  • TEPA 2023 (Oct 9, 2023)
    From the 2nd to the 5th of October, the Czech Academy of Science in Prague hosted the 9th edition of the TEPA Conferences: Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration. Over the last decade, high-energy physics in the atmosphere (HEPA) has undergone significant transformation. Correlated measurements of particle fluxes modulated by strong atmospheric electric fields,...
  • The visit of delegations of CANDLE SRI and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR),... (Sep 19, 2023)
    On September 15th, Bagrat Grigoryan, the director of CANDLE, along with Oleg Belov and Ksenya Belokopitova, senior scientists of the applied research department of NICA accelerator, JINR, Dubna, visited the Aragats Research Center. Professor Chilingarian, the head of the Cosmic Ray Division, introduced them to the ongoing research at the station. He demonstrated and explained...
  • SEVAN detector installed on Zugspitze in Bavarian Alps (Apr 26, 2023)
    Armenian and German SEVAN groups established the SEVAN module at the Environmental research station Scheefernhaus (Zugspitze, 2650 m). A historical site where Johim Kuettner performed seminal experiments on the charge structure of the thundercloud in 1945-1949. The near-surface electric field (NSEF) measurements will support particle flux measurements with the EFM-100 sensor...
  • Climb to Aragats (Duty shift change in February) (Feb 8, 2023)
    The Aragats Cosmic Ray observatory, used for studying particle acceleration in outer space and the terrestrial atmosphere (see attachment), is located at an elevation of 3200 m . asl (above sea level) on the shore of Kare Lake (Kari Lij). Strong winds, predominantly from west to northwest, relocate large amounts of unconsolidated winter snow, accumulating on the sheltered...
  • New Discoveries of Aragats Physicists (Jan 6, 2023)
    The first years of Armenia's independence were very difficult for the staff at Yerevan Physics Institute’s Cosmic Ray Division (CRD). With funding suddenly stopped from the largest soviet ministry, there was no fuel, electricity, and food. Monthly salaries were the equivalent of five U.S. dollars. The construction of the world’s largest cosmic ray experiment, ANI...