“Ukrainian crystals for the Large Hadron Collider: when science is stronger than war” – an article with this title was published in the pages of the online publication “Dzerkalo Tyzhnia”.
In it, the head of the crystal growth technology department at the Institute of Scintillation Materials (ISMA) of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences Oleh Sidletskiy talks about the “TWISMA” project, which is being implemented by Kharkiv scientists. This is the first project in the history of the “Horizon Europe” program coordinated by a Ukrainian scientific institution. The TWISMA project team worked on creating a new generation of crystals for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And the scientists of ISMA NAS of Ukraine succeeded, even though the start of the crystal growth experiment coincided with the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Why is the Ukrainian “TWISMA” project so important for the development of science? What tasks were set before the Ukrainian scientists and what was achieved? How was it possible to implement the project in frontline Kharkiv?
More details in the full version of the article.