The Second Fundamental Neutron Physics Summer School

第二届基础中子物理暑期学校

• 批准号: 0936785
• 负责人: Fred Wietfeldt
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0936785&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Second; Fundamental; Neutron; Physics; Summer

This award provides support for students to attend the Second Summer School in Fundamental Neutron Physics to be held at the NIST Center for Neutron Research June 22 - 26, 2009. The use of slow neutron beams and ultracold neutrons for investigating fundamental processes in nature has grown steadily during the past two decades. Major neutron research facilities: the NIST Center for Neutron Research in Maryland and the Spallation Neutron Source in Tennessee have significant research programs and important recent results in this field, often called "fundamental neutron physics". This work has important implications for nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and for testing the Standard Model of particle physics. This subject is not often covered in graduate school curricula, so there is a need for a national summer school to educate graduate students and other young scientists who are already in or interested in joining this growing field.Fundamental neutron physics is interdisciplinary -- it lies at the intersection of nuclear, particle, and condensed matter physics. The proposed summer school will help educate the next generation of neutron scientists in the United States.

该奖项支持学生参加将于2009年6月22-26日在NIST中子研究中心举办的第二届基础中子物理暑期班。在过去的二十年里，使用慢中子束和超冷中子来研究自然界的基本过程的情况稳步增长。主要的中子研究设施：马里兰州的NIST中子研究中心和田纳西州的散裂中子源在这一领域有重要的研究计划和重要的最新成果，通常被称为“基础中子物理”。这项工作对核物理、天体物理和宇宙学以及检验粒子物理的标准模型具有重要意义。这门学科在研究生院的课程中并不经常涉及，因此有必要举办一个全国性的暑期班来教育研究生和其他已经对这个不断增长的领域感兴趣的年轻科学家。基础中子物理学是跨学科的--它位于核物理、粒子物理学和凝聚态物理的交叉点上。拟议中的暑期学校将有助于教育美国的下一代中子科学家。