RUI: Multifaceted Opportunities in Nuclear Physics for Undergraduates at Hope College

美国国家科学基金会(National Science Foundation)已向希望学院核能集团(由Paul DeYoung博士和Graham Peaslee博士领导)授予本科生研究机构(RUI)补助金，以支持未来三年的各种本科生研究项目。这些活动将集中在密歇根州立大学国家超导回旋实验室(NSCL)和圣母大学(ND)核结构实验室的放射性核束(RNB)研究上。NSCL的实验将包括使用MONA设施进行的一些新的调查。这些研究将增加我们对远离稳定性的原子核的构造以及如何与其他物质相互作用的理解。为了使希望学院的本科生为研究生工作或其他科学职业做好准备，他们将参与工作的方方面面：实验设置、数据获取、分析和建模以及结果的展示。本科生还将参与基于新的希望学院离子束分析实验室(HIBAL)的跨学科研究。这些项目将调查核物理技术在其他科学学科中的应用。我们的研究成果和合作者的研究成果将在标准期刊上发表。

A Research in Undergraduate Instituions (RUI) grant has been awarded to the Hope College Nuclear Group (under the direction of Dr. Paul DeYoung and Dr. Graham Peaslee) by the National Science Foundation to support a variety of undergraduate research projects for the next three years. The activities will center on radioactive nuclear beam (RNB) studies at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University and the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame (ND). Experiments at the NSCL will include a number of new investigations using the MoNA facility. These studies will increase our understanding of the way nuclei far from stability are constructed and interact with other matter. To prepare Hope College undergraduate students for graduate work or other scientific careers, they will be involved in every aspect of the work: experimental setup, data acquisition, analysis and modeling, and presentation of results. Undergraduates will also be involved in interdisciplinary studies based upon the new Hope College Ion Beam Analysis Laboratory (HIBAL). These projects will investigate applications of nuclear physics techniques to questions in other scientific disciplines. Our results and the results of our collaborators will be disseminated in standard journals