RUI: Studing Exotic Nuclei with the Modualr Neutron Array (MoNA)

中央密歇根大学是10个机构合作的创始成员之一，他们共同建造了一个耗资100万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。模块化中子阵列(MONA)是研究远不稳定丰中子核的重要仪器。合作的一个独特方面是，合作的许多成员主要来自本科生机构，本科生的参与是该项目的基本目标。在MONA的合作中，来自中密歇根大学的本科生在MONA的建设和运营中发挥了不可或缺的作用；他们建造了探测器条、有线电子设备、编写代码、Sat Shift，并完成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。这项提案将允许PI和他来自中密歇根大学的本科生继续参与实验计划。此外，该提案提出了一种模式，不仅可以保持基于本科系学生和教职员工的积极协作的势头，而且还可以推动协作，让本科生更积极地参与所有实验运行和数据分析。如果这些措施成功，它们将为让本科生在用户设施中参与尖端实验物理提供一个原型。

Central Michigan University is a charter member of a collaboration of 10 institutions that worked together to construct a million dollar, high efficiency neutron detector for use at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a critical instrument in the study of neutron rich nuclei far from stability. One of the unique aspects of the collaboration is that many of the members of the collaboration are from primarily undergraduate institutions and the involvement of undergraduate students is fundamental goal of the project. In the MoNA collaboration undergraduate students from Central Michigan University have play integral roles in the construction and operation of MoNA; they have built detector bars, wired electronics, written code, sat shifts, and done both on- and off-line data analysis. The MoNA collaboration has been remarkably successful at involving undergraduate students in front-line research. This proposal will permit the PI and his undergraduates from Central Michigan University to continue to participate in the experimental program. In addition, the proposal presents a model for not only sustaining the momentum of an active collaboration based on students and faculty from undergraduate departments, but also moves the collaboration to more actively involve undergraduates in all the experimental runs and in data analysis. If these measures are successful, they will provide a prototype for involving undergraduates in cutting-edge experimental physics at user facilities.