Improving Undergraduate Labs via Cyber-enabled Instruction and Remote Instrument Control

物理学(13)该项目使学生和教育工作者可以通过现场和远程访问一个重要的设备--石溪串列范德格拉夫加速器，并允许将其用于从人类学(使用14C测年技术)到核物理的各种应用。使用基于视频会议的工具，学生有机会通过虚拟控制正在运行的核加速器及其相关探测器来学习核碰撞。在其他实验中，学生能够进行中子阈值研究，观察(p，n)反应的共振态，研究重离子反应，并进行离散伽马射线实验。由于该设备还能够进行加速器质谱学测量，长期设施计划是进行14C年代测定，以确定生物材料的年龄(目前可用)，检测26Al(可能与阿尔茨海默病有关)，并测量骨骼中的41Ca，冰芯、地下水和冰裂山顶的36Cl，以及化石燃料储量的129I。虽然当前项目的主要重点是本科教育，但加速器也适用于大学预科和研究生社区。

Physics (13)This project makes a major device, the Stony Brook Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, accessible to students and educators through both on-site and remote access and allows its use for a wide variety of applications ranging from anthropology (using 14C dating techniques) through nuclear physics. Using video-conference-based tools, students have the opportunity to study nuclear collisions by taking virtual control of a functioning nuclear accelerator and its associated detectors. Among other experiments, students are able to conduct neutron threshold studies, observe resonance states in (p,n) reactions, study heavy-ion reactions, and perform discrete gamma ray experiments. Because the device is also able to make accelerator mass spectrometry measurements, the long-range facility plan is to perform 14C dating to determine the age of biological materials (currently available), detect 26Al (possibly associated with Alzheimer's disease), and measure 41Ca from bones, 36Cl from ice cores, ground water, and glacially-cleaved mountain tops, and 129I from fossil fuel reserves. While the primary focus of the current project is undergraduate education, the accelerator is also available to the pre-college and graduate communities.