Oleg Borisovich Samoylov

Professional experience 2003 – till now Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Dubna

Current position: Head of Sector

NOMAD Coll. 2003 – 2014 Experiment at CERN Geneva, Switzerland

Participation within JINR group since Oct-2003 in following activities:

Monte Carlo simulations

 Neutrino-nucleon inclusive interactions for both charged and neutral currents for the Drift Chambers (Carbon)

 Neutrino-nucleon inclusive interactions for charged current including charm production for the Front Calorimeter (Iron)

Data analysis

 Proton identification to search for pentaquark Θ+

 Developing the fake-pair technique to predict background in an analysis of the resonance

 Selection of dimuon events in the Front Calorimeter

 Calculation of background from semi-leptonic decay of mesons

 Selection of charged pions for fragmentation functions

Physics analysis

 Search for pentaquark Θ+

 Background technique for the K*+- signal in the spin alignment analysis

 Pion production analysis

 Charm Dimuon production analysis

PUBLICATIONS: 9 papers, 5 internal notes, 9 papers in Conference Proceedings, 3 posters for Conferences

NOvA Coll. 2013 – till now Experiment at FNAL Batavia, IL, USA

Participation within JINR group since Oct-2013 in following activities:

 Deputy on the Project at JINR, Dubna

 Co-convener of the detector simulation group

 Management and development of Remote operation center for the NOvA experiment at Dubna, Russia (ROC-Dubna)

 Test and assembly of the NOvA detectors, detectors running

 Software development

 Physics analysis

PUBLICATIONS: 8 papers, 6 internal notes, 31 internal talks, 7 conference talks and proceedings, 11 posters

DarkSide Coll. 2016 – till now Experiment at LNGS Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy

Participation within JINR group since Aug-2016 in following activities:

 A study of signal formation in liquid argon dual-phase time projection chamber and nonlinearity of that signal

 An analysis to compare contributions 39Ar in atmospheric and underground argons (AAr / UAr)

 A search for double K-capture in 36Ar

PUBLICATIONS: 5 papers

Theory 2010 – 2014 JINR Dubna, Russia

Phenomenology of the fragmentation processes in e+e- collisions and in the lepton-nucleon deep inelastic scattering

PUBLICATIONS: 1 paper, 2 papers in Conference Proceedings

Organizing work

2006 – 2014 JINR Dubna, Russia

Scientific secretary of the Baikal summer School on Physics of elementary particles and Astrophysics

2012 – 2012 JINR Dubna, Russia

Scientific secretary of the Pontecorvo Neutrino Physics School

2013 – 2015 DLNP JINR Dubna, Russia

Scientific secretary of the DLNP Seminar on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

2013 – till now JINR Dubna, Russia

Deputy of the NOvA project at JINR, Russia

2015 – till now DLNP JINR Dubna, Russia

Member of scientific and technical council

2015 – till now RFBR Moscow, Russia

Expert at neutrino physics

2015 – 2016 JINR Dubna, Russia

ROC-Dubna liaison for the NOvA collaboration

2016 – till now JINR Dubna, Russia

Co-convener of the detector simulation group for the NOvA collaboration

Software Unix-based systems, C/C++, ROOT, Fortran, Shell scripts, JS, Python

Formation

1999-2004 Irkutsk State University (ISU) Irkutsk, Russia

Student–Physicist

 Department of Radio-Physics and Electronics and Department of Theoretical Physics

 Diploma of Physicist performed at Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (DLNP JINR, 2003-2004)

 Title of the thesis: “Search for exotic baryon state (pentaquark) Θ+(1530) at NOMAD experiment ”

 Advisors: Prof. A.N. Vall (ISU) and Dr. D.V. Naumov (JINR)

2004 – 2010 ISU and JINR Irkutsk and Dubna, Russia

Candidate of Science (PhD Student)

 PhD thesis performed at DLNP JINR

 Title of the thesis: “Charm dimuon production and search for pentaquark Θ+(1530) in neutrino-nucleon interactions in the NOMAD experiment ” (defended on May 24, 2011)

 Advisor: Dr. D.V. Naumov (JINR) Consultant: Prof. R. Petti (Univ. of SC, USA)

Awards

 2002 – Irkutsk State University fellowship for students

 2003 – Grant of «Dynasty Foundation» for students

 2005 – Moscow Prize for Innovative Researches

 2006 – 1st premium of scientific work DLNP JINR

 2006 – Bruno Pontecorvo fellowship DLNP JINR

 2009 – Fellowship JINR for junior researchers

 2010 – 3rd premium of scientific work JINR for junior researchers

 2012 – 1st premium of scientific work JINR for junior researchers

 2012 – Best poster presentation on PAC of Particle Physics at JINR

 2012 – Bruno Pontecorvo fellowship DLNP JINR

 2013 – Fellowship JINR for junior researchers with PhD

 2013 – Grant of Russian President for young scientists with PhD

 2014 – 2nd premium of scientific work DLNP JINR

 2016 – 2nd premium of scientific work DLNP JINR

Personal info

Birth: February 16, 1982 (Kirensk, Russia)

Marital Status: Married (to Nataliya Samoylova)

Daughter: Agata, January 12, 2015

Son: Mark, May 01, 2019

Spoken Languages: Russian, English