Basics of Acceleration. Interview with Sergei Gavrilov from the RAS Institute for Nuclear Research

Why are we unable to outsmart the nature and reach the speed of light? How are particle accelerators connected with our daily life, and what is the difference between circular and linear installations? Head of the Beam Laboratory of the Accelerator Department at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences S. A. Gavrilov answers these and other questions. Reference. Sergei Aleksandrovich Gavrilov is Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Beam Laboratory of the Accelerator Department at the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), teaching assistant of the Department of Fundamental Interactions and Cosmology at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).