This year’s Olga Igonkina travel grant for young Russian talent in particle physics goes to PhD student Anna Danilina of Moscow State University and the LHCb experiment at CERN.
She receives the award to participate in the Rencontres de Blois conference in October in France, where she will present her calculations on the decay of B-mesons to four leptons. On this she is working in Moscow with her supervisor Dr. N. Nikitin.
This was announced by the Olga Igonkina Foundation. The grant of 2000 euros was awarded with a small online ceremony Tuesday.
The foundation exists in memory of Russian-Dutch particle physicist Prof. Dr. Olga ‘Olya’ Igonkina, who died two years ago in Amsterdam at the age of 45. She was an extraordinary professor in Nijmegen and a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and a staff member at Nikhef.
The jury praised Danilina’s work on the LHCb experiment and also the detailed travel plans she submitted. This is the second time the memorial travel grant has been awarded. Last year, experimental physicist PhD student Viacheslav Matiunin of ITEP in Moscow won. His trip, to a conference in Poland, was then postponed because of the corona pandemic.
The jury for the travel grant consists of ITEP professor Prof. Dr. Viktor Egorychev, Nikhef director Prof. Dr. Stan Bentvelsen and Dr. Wouter Hulsbergen, widower of Olga Igonkina and Nikhef researcher at the LHCb experiment.