RUI: Very High Resolution Photoabsorption Cross-Sections in the Vacuum Ultraviolet

该奖项旨在支持少数民族本科院校与国家标准与技术研究所合作的一个项目。该项目包括对氧、氮和氢分子进行高分辨率光谱的实验室研究。这些研究应该会引起大气科学和天体物理学的基本兴趣。将利用NIST存储环和高分辨率光谱仪设备产生的同步辐射。这是世界上具有超高分辨率能力和整个真空紫外范围内源可调性的两个可比较的设施之一。教师和本科生将直接参与NIST的实验室项目，并在他们的家乡机构进行数据简化和分析。该项目计划包括一个学年的组成部分以及一个广泛的夏季活动。

This award is to support a project from a minority undergraduate institution in conjunction with the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The project involves a laboratory study of high resolution spectroscopy of the oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen molecules. These studies should lead to basic quantities of fundamental interest in both atmospheric science and astrophysics. Use will be made of the synchrotron radiation generated with the NIST storage ring and the high resolution spectrometer facility. This is one of the two comparable facilities in the world that has the combination of ultra-high resolution capability and source tunability over the entire vacuum ultraviolet range. Faculty and undergraduate students will be directly involved in the laboratory program at NIST and at their home institution doing data reduction and analysis. The program is planned to include an academic year component as well as an extensive summer activity.