Alexander Lobko

Member of Physical Society of Republic of Belarus

Date and place of birth: 13 March 1959, Minsk, Belarus

Education

Master of Physics, 1981, Belarusian State University, Minsk
PhD in Physics, 1992, Belarusian State University, Minsk
Doctor of Science in Physics, 2007, Institute for Physics, Academy of Science, Belarus

Career/Employment

Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University
Research Director, April 2000-to present;
(part-time) head of Laboratory of nuclear spectrometry and expert evaluation of radiation safety

Scientific Secretary January 1994-April 2000;
Senior Researcher, 1990-1993;
Researcher, 1986-1990;

Belarusian State University, Nuclear Physics Department
Junior Researcher, 1984-1986;
Engineer-Researcher, 1981-1984.

Teaching/Instruction
Part-time Professor (BSU, Physics Department, Nuclear Physics Subdepartment)\
Courses taught:
Physics of Accelerators, Issues of up-to-date Energetics, Induction to Specialization
Laboratory training:
Basics of Radio electronics, Modern Physics Experiment (based on GEANT4, with Vitaly Mechinsky), Neutron Physics

Specialization

• Main field – Experimental physics
• Specific research interests – Generation of parametric x-rays and powerful microwave radiation, modern scintillation detectors

Recent selected publications

• A. Lobko, E. Golubeva, P. Kuzhir, S. Maksimenko, A. Paddubskaya, O. Shenderova, V. Uglov, N. Valynets. Nanodiamond targets for accelerator x-ray experiments, Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 355 (2015) 261-263.
• A. Ahmadi, I. Feranchuk, A. Lobko Parametric gamma-radiation in Fe crystal with natural splitting of the Mossbauer line, Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 355 (2015) 180-183.
• I. Lobach, A. Benediktovich, I. Feranchuk, A. Lobko. Parametric x-rays from a polycrystalline target. Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 360 (2015) 75-80.
• A. Lobko, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, V. Mechinski, G. Drobychev. On the concept of system to detect unclaimed inclusions of fissile and radioactive materials in hand luggage and cargo trucking // Advanced Sensors for Safety and Security, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics / A. Vaseashta and S. Khudaverdyan (eds.), Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013, P. 253-260.
• L. Sartini, F. Simeone, P. Pani, N. Lo Bue, G. Marinaro, A. Grubich, A. Lobko, G. Etiope, A. Capone, P. Favali, F. Gasparoni, and F. Bruni GEMS: Underwater spectrometer for long-term radioactivity measurements. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 626-627 Suppl.1 (2011) S145-S147
• V. Baryshevsky, A. Gurinovich, E. Gurnevich, A. Lobko. Generation of medical X-ray and THz beams of radiation using table-top accelerators. Nuovo Cimento C (2011) Vol. 34(4), 199-206. DOI: 10.1393/ncc/i2011-10940-8
• I.D. Feranchuk, A.S. Lobko Applications of parametric x-rays for x-ray diffraction analysis. Nucl. Instr. Meth. B, 266 (2008) Р. 3888-3892
• V.G. Baryshevsky, K.G. Batrakov, I.D. Feranchuk, A.A. Gurinovich, A.O. Grubich, A.S. Lobko, A.A. Rouba, B.A. Tarnopolsky, P.F. Safronov, V.I. Stolyarsky, A.P. Ulyanenkov Experimental observation of frequency tuning of x-ray radiation from nonrelativistic electrons in crystals. Phys. Lett. A. 2007. Vol. 363. P. 448–452.
• A. Lobko, O. Lugovskaya Numerical simulation of a parametric x-rays (PXR) source. Proc. SPIE. 2007. Vol. 6634
• A. Lobko, N. Nasonov, H. Park, M. Piestrup, P. Zhukova Enhanced parametric x-ray emission from grazing incident electrons. Proc. SPIE. 2007. Vol. 6634.
• V.G. Baryshevsky, K.G. Batrakov, I.D. Feranchuk, A. Gurinovich, A.O. Grubich, A.S. Lobko, A.A. Rouba, B.A. Tarnopolsky, P.F. Safronov, V.I. Stolyarsky, A.P. Ulyanenkov Experimental observation of frequency tunable x-rays generated by interaction of nonrelativistic electrons with a silicon crystal. X-ray Spectrom. 2007. Vol. 36. P. 343–347.
• Danevich F.A., Georgadze A.Sh., Kobychev V.V., Kropivyansky B.N., Nagorny S.S., Nikolaiko A.S., Poda D.V., Tretyak V.I., Vyshnevetsyi I.M., Yurchenko S.S., Grinyov B.V., Nagornaya L.L., Pirogov E.N., Ryzhikov V.D., Brudanin V.B., Vylov Ts., Fedorov A., Korzhik M., Lobko A., Missevitch O. Application of PbWO4 crystal scintillators in experiment to search for 2beta decay of 116Cd. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 556 (2006) 259–265.
• Lobko A., Lugovskaya O. Choice of optimal target for monochromatic tunable x-ray source based on low-energy accelerator. Advanced Radiation Sources and Applications. Ed. H. Wiedemann. – NATO Science Series II – Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Springer. 2006. Vol. 199. P. 47–54.
• Fedorov A., Korzhik M., Lobko A., Missevitch O. Novel fast-acting scintillation detectors for wide energy range applications. Advanced Radiation Sources and Applications. Ed. H. Wiedemann.NATO Science Series II – Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Springer. 2006. Vol. 199. P. 319–328.
• A.S. Lobko. Experimental research of the parametric x-rays. Minsk: University Publ., 2006. – 210 P. (in Russian).
• Baryshevsky V.G., Batrakov K.G., Evdokimov V.A., Gurinovich A.A., Lobko A.S., Molchanov P.V., Sofronov P.F., Stolyarsky V.I. Experimental observation of radiation frequency tuning in “OLSE-10” prototype of volume free electron laser. Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 252 (2006) 86–91.