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，即元素的起源和物质在中子星星实验室极端条件下的命运。 JINA涉及来自三所大学的科学家，即芝加哥大学、密歇根州立大学和圣母大学，并与阿贡国家实验室、位于圣克鲁斯的加州大学和亚利桑那大学的SciDAC中心以及位于圣巴巴拉的加州大学的理论物理研究所合作。 JINA合作代表了一系列核天体物理学实验者，建模者和观察者，他们的研究计划集中在两个基础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。第二个研究组成部分侧重于探索在吸积中子星外层大气热核失控期间的快速核合成，以及它们的灰烬在中子星星壳较深层的命运。JINA将组织一系列广泛的研讨会和参观者交流，以及学生与美国和世界各地所有相关领域的领导团体和机构的交流。这使得JINA能够以跨学科，连贯的方法解决核天体物理学中的未决问题，并同时解决相关的天体物理和核问题。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。 JINA的一个关键因素是跨学科的教育计划。 联系机构之间的初级研究人员交流是克服传统领域界限的关键。一个广泛的外联方案面向公众，并有助于吸引年轻人从事科学事业。 该奖项由物理学部和数学和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.