MRI: Development of GEORGINA--A Ge Detector Array for Research in Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame Nuclear Science Laboratory.

该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。该奖项将资助在圣母大学核科学实验室购买一系列新型锗探测器 GEORGINA（用于核天体物理学伽马射线光谱的 GE 探测器在线 aRray）。 GEORGINA将是一个多功能的伽马射线探测设施，它将能够进行许多重要的实验，这些实验对于我们了解恒星如何产生能量以及我们周围看到的重元素是如何形成的至关重要。与圣母大学正在建设的其他设备相结合，GEORGINA 将提供世界上无与伦比的系统来研究这些现象。圣母大学的核科学实验室拥有 70 年的核科学教育传统，并为科学技术研究、国土安全、医学和工业培养熟练劳动力。 GEORGINA将成为培养大量本科生和研究生的重要工具，他们将在未来几年成为我国科技领导的中坚力量。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award will fund the acquisition of a new array of Germanium detectors, GEORGINA (GE detector Online aRray for Gamma ray spectroscopy In Nuclear Astrophysics), at the Nuclear Science Laboratory, University of Notre Dame. GEORGINA will be a versatile gamma-ray detection facility that will make it possible to perform many important experiments that are crucial to our understanding of how stars produce energy and how the heavy elements that we see around us are formed. In combination with other equipment under construction at Notre Dame, GEORGINA will provide a system unparalleled anywhere in the world to study these phenomena.The Nuclear Science Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame has had a 70-year tradition of education in nuclear science and development of skilled workforce for science and technology research, homeland security, medicine, and industry. GEORGINA will be an important tool in training of a large number of undergraduate and graduate students who will form the backbone of scientific and technological leadership of our country in the coming years.