A Program of Medium Energy Nuclear Physics

NSF支持的中能核物理计划将允许伊利诺伊大学香槟分校的核物理小组继续领导和贡献国际核物理研究中的高影响实验。该研究计划有两个主要主题，即1)核子和原子核的结构和相互作用；2)基本对称性和标准模型。这个项目中的实验所追求的物理学将有助于回答这样的问题，例如，质子是如何构建的？现行的部分物理标准模型正确吗？具体活动包括以下已建立的重大国际实验：G0、Hermes、PHENIX、Mulan和MuCap。此外，该小组正在帮助开发一项新的Muon g-2实验，并对中子电偶极矩进行灵敏的搜索。除了直接的物理研究成果外，该小组已经联系到实验室，为教育和推广做出重大贡献，并将继续这样做。研究项目对大量博士后、研究生和本科生的教育有很大贡献。

The NSF-supported Program of Medium Energy Nuclear Physics will allow the nuclear physics group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to continue to lead and contribute to high-impact experiments in international nuclear physics research. The research program fea-tures two major themes, namely 1) the structure and interactions of nucleons and nuclei and 2) fundamental symmetries and the standard model. The physics pursued by experiments in this program will help answer questions such as, How is the proton built? and Is the current parti-cle physics standard model correct? Specific activities include the following major, established international experiments: G0, HERMES, PHENIX, MuLan, and MuCap. Additionally, the group is helping to develop a new muon g-2 experiment and a sensitive search for a neutron elec-tric dipole moment. In addition to direct physics research outcomes, the group has reached be-yond the laboratory to make significant contributions to education and outreach and will con-tinue to do so. Research projects contribute substantially to the education of a large number of postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students.