Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - JINA

该奖项为核天体物理联合研究所（JINA）提供资金。该研究所作为一个广泛的论坛，以协作和协同的方式解决核天体物理学中的两个基本问题，即元素的起源和中子星实验室极端条件下物质的命运。JINA涉及来自芝加哥大学、密歇根州立大学和圣母大学三所大学的科学家，并与阿贡国家实验室、加州大学圣克鲁兹分校和亚利桑那大学的SciDAC中心以及加州大学圣巴巴拉分校理论物理研究所合作。JINA合作代表了一系列的核天体物理实验家、建模者和观测者，他们的研究项目集中在两个基本研究组成部分和相关问题上。第一个研究部分侧重于相关核合成过程的实验室和计算方面。第二部分的研究重点是探索吸积中子星外层大气热核逃逸过程中的快速核合成及其在中子星地壳较深层的灰烬的命运。JINA将组织一系列广泛的研讨会，并与美国和世界各地相关领域的领导团体和研究所进行参观者和学生的交流。这使JINA能够以跨学科、连贯的方法解决核天体物理学中的开放性问题，并同时解决有关的天体物理学和核问题。对于核天体物理学来说，这种方法是必不可少的，因为该领域的各个方面以复杂的、有时是意想不到的方式联系在一起。在JINA的一个关键因素是一个跨学科的教育计划。在相关机构之间交换初级研究人员是克服传统领域边界的关键。一项广泛的外联计划面向公众，帮助吸引年轻人从事科学事业。该奖项由物理部和数学与物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同资助。

This award provides funding for the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA). The Institute acts as a broad forum for a collaborative and synergistic approach in addressing two fundamental problems posed in Nuclear Astrophysics, The Origin of the Elements and the fate of matter at the extreme conditions of Neutron Star Laboratories. JINA involves scientists from three universities, the University of Chicago, Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, the SciDAC Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Arizona, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The JINA collaboration represents a spectrum of nuclear astrophysics experimentalists, modelers, and observers who focus their research programs on two fundamental research components and related problems. The first research component focuses on the laboratory and computational aspects of the associated nucleosynthesis processes. The second research component is focused on exploring the rapid nucleosynthesis during the thermonuclear runaways in the outer atmosphere of accreting neutron stars and the fate of their ashes in the deeper layers of the neutron star crust. JINA will organize an extensive series of workshops and exchanges of visitors as well as students with leading groups and institutes in all relevant fields in the US and worldwide. This allows JINA to address the open questions in nuclear astrophysics in a cross-disciplinary, coherent approach and to solve the relevant astrophysical and nuclear problems simultaneously. For nuclear astrophysics, such an approach is essential, as various aspects of the field are connected in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. A key element in JINA is an interdisciplinary educational program. Exchange of junior researchers between the associated institutions is a key in overcoming traditional field boundaries. An extensive outreach program addresses the public and helps to attract young people to pursue a career in science. This award is co-funded by the Physics Division and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.