An RUI Proposal to Investigate the Neutron Drip Line Using the Modular Neutron Array

RUI 使用模块化中子阵列研究中子滴线的提案

• 批准号: 0555439
• 负责人: Joseph Finck
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: Central Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-15 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0555439&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Proposal; Investigate; Neutron; Drip

Central Michigan University is a charter member of a collaboration of 10institutions that worked together to construct a million dollar, highefficiency neutron detector for use at the National SuperconductingCyclotron Laboratory. The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a criticalinstrument in the study of nuclei far from stability. One of the uniqueaspects of the collaboration is that many of the members of thecollaboration are from primarily undergraduate institutions and theinvolvement of undergraduate students is fundamental goal of the project. In the MoNA collaboration undergraduate students from Central MichiganUniversity have play integral roles in the construction and operation ofMoNA; they have built detector bars, wired electronics, written code, satshifts, and done both on- and off-line data analysis.The MoNA collaboration has been remarkably successful at involvingundergraduate students in front-line research. This proposal will permitthe PI and his undergraduates from Central Michigan University to continueto participate in the experimental program. In addition, the proposalpresents a model for not only sustaining the momentum of an activecollaboration based on students and faculty from undergraduatedepartments, but also moves the collaboration to more actively involveundergraduates in all the experimental runs and in data analysis. If thesemeasures are successful, they will provide a prototype for involvingundergraduates in cutting-edge experimental physics at user facilities.

中密歇根大学是100个机构合作的创始成员，这些机构共同努力建造一个价值百万美元的高效中子探测器，供国家超导回旋加速器实验室使用。 模块化中子阵（莫纳）是研究远离稳定核的重要仪器。合作的一个独特的方面是，许多成员的college主要来自本科院校和本科生的参与是该项目的基本目标。在莫纳的合作中，来自中央大学的本科生在MoNA的建设和运营中发挥了不可或缺的作用;他们建造了探测器棒，有线电子设备，编写了代码，进行了在线和离线数据分析。莫纳的合作在让本科生参与一线研究方面取得了显著的成功。这个建议将鼓励PI和他的中密歇根大学的本科生继续参与实验计划。此外，该提案提出了一个模型，不仅维持了一个积极的集体的基础上的学生和教师从本科部门的势头，但也移动的合作，更积极地参与所有的实验运行和数据分析本科生。如果这些措施是成功的，他们将提供一个原型，让大学生参与到用户设施的尖端实验物理中。