IRES: Student Participation in Photonuclear Physics Research at MAX-Lab, Sweden

该IRES奖项为马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校、布里奇沃特州立大学、马萨诸塞州布里斯托尔和科德角社区学院以及美国东北部其他学院的本科生提供了在瑞典南部隆德大学的MAX-LAB设施参与实验核物理研究的国际合作的机会。作为合作的一部分，这个为期三年的奖项每年将资助六名学生，作为合作的一部分，他们每人将在MAX-LAB度过8-10周。PI项目将在每年夏天与学生一起前往隆德，监督和协调学生？S个人项目，并将监督他们整个夏天的进展。每个学生还将接受MAX-LAB核物理小组成员以及合作伙伴其他成员的监督和指导。学生将参与MAX-LAB正在进行的研究的方方面面，包括设备设置、校准、数据获取和数据分析。每个学生将写一份项目报告，并有机会在当地的研讨会和全国会议上展示他们的努力成果。学生们将参与的实验是由OPENTS@MAXLAB合作进行的。他们利用MAX-LAB的光子标记设备以及MAX-LAB的布尼、CATS、戴安娜和xSAL探测器系统来研究质子和中子产生介子的过程。这些测量将提供目前世界上缺失的数据？？S关于这个基本核过程的数据库。所获得的结果将与描述这一过程的理论模型的预测进行比较，并将有助于解决从基本夸克结构的角度描述质子和中子行为的问题。学生参与者将接受经验丰富的国际研究人员的培训和指导，这将有助于他们准备在全球环境中成功运行。通过他们的努力发展起来的联系将有助于支持正在进行的国际合作。PI项目在指导女学生方面表现出了奉献精神和成功，女学生是实验核物理学中代表性不足的群体，并致力于在这个项目中拓宽女性和代表性不足的少数民族的机会？S研究计划。

This IRES award provides undergraduate students associated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Bridgewater State University, Bristol and Cape Cod Community Colleges in Massachusetts as well as other colleges throughout the US Northeast, with the opportunity to participate in an international collaboration in experimental nuclear physics research at the MAX-lab facility located at Lund University in southern Sweden. This three-year award will support six students each year who will each spend 8-10 weeks during the summer at MAX-lab as a part of the collaboration.The project PI will travel with the students to Lund each summer to supervise and coordinate the student?s individual project, and will monitor their progress throughout the summer. Each student will also receive supervision and mentoring from members of the MAX-lab nuclear physics group as well as other members of the collaboration. The students will be involved in all aspects of the research being performed at MAX-lab, including equipment set-up, calibration, data taking and data analysis. Each student will write a project report and will have the opportunity to present the results of their efforts at local seminars and national conferences.The experiments the students will be involved in are being conducted by the PIONS@MAXLAB Collaboration. They make use of the MAX-lab Photon Tagging Facility together with the BUNI, CATS, DIANA and xSAL detector systems at MAX-lab to study the process of pion photoproduction from the proton and neutron. These measurements will provide data that are currently missing from the world?s database of this fundamental nuclear process. The results obtained will be compared with the predictions from theoretical models describing this process and will help address the question of describing the behavior of the proton and neutron in terms of the underlying quark structure.The student participants will receive training and mentoring from experienced international researchers that will help prepare them to operate successfully in a global environment. The connections developed through their efforts will help support on-going international cooperation. The project PI has demonstrated dedication and success in mentoring women students, an underrepresented group in experimental nuclear physics, and is committed to broadening the opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in this project?s research plans.