REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL and Duke University

该奖项支持三角大学核实验室（TUNL）和杜克大学物理学本科生研究经验（REU）计划的更新。TUNL是由北卡罗来纳三角地区的三所主要大学，杜克大学，北卡罗莱纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校组成的研究联盟。该项目将为总共12名学生提供机会，参与核物理和粒子物理领域广泛主题的研究。八名学生将在TUNL进行研究，另外四名学生将在欧洲核子研究中心与杜克大学高能物理小组一起度过他们夏季的一部分时间。这个REU暑期项目通过完成一个独立的10周项目，为本科生提供了一个积极的研究经验。每个学生都被分配一名教师导师，并被纳入一个由教师、博士后、研究生和其他本科生组成的研究小组。此外，学生有机会了解财团机构的研究生课程。通过积极的研究、研讨会、实验室参观和讨论小组，学生们接触到核与粒子物理研究的各个方面以及它们与其他科学领域的联系。讲座和研讨会的主题分别强调了TUNL和CERN的核物理和粒子物理研究活动。两个学生小组都将有机会使用这些研究领域中使用的最先进技术。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Physics at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and Duke University. TUNL is a research consortium consisting of three major universities in the North Carolina Triangle Area, Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program will provide opportunities for a total of 12 students to participate in research on a broad range of topics in nuclear and particle physics. Eight students will conduct research at TUNL, and the other four will spend part of their summer at CERN working with the Duke high-energy physics group. This REU summer program provides undergraduate students with an active research experience through the completion of a self-contained 10-week project. Each student is assigned a faculty mentor and is integrated into a research group consisting of faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other undergraduate students. In addition, the students have opportunities to learn about the graduate programs at the consortium institutions. Through active research, seminars, lab tours, and discussion groups, the students are exposed to various aspects of nuclear and particle physics research and their connections to other science areas. Lecture and seminar topics are chosen to emphasize the nuclear and particle physics research activities at TUNL and CERN, respectively. Both student groups will have opportunities to work with state-of-the-art technologies used in these lines of research.