REU Site: Research In Neutrino Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls

REU 站点：威斯康星大学河瀑布分校的中微子天体物理学研究

• 批准号: 1460752
• 负责人: Surujhdeo Seunarine
• 金额: $ 23.19万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Neutrino; Astrophysics

This award supports a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls to provide six undergraduates with ten-week summer research experiences annually on projects with data from the international IceCube Neutrino Observatory. To advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning, students will be integrated into a research collaboration that opened the field of neutrino astronomy, and work in a department where learning and involving undergraduates in research are priorities. Students will acquire a broad range of research skills, will learn to appreciate the value of fundamental science to society and will be mentored on giving effective scientific presentations and in communicating science.Students will make contributions to the IceCube experiment that will help advance understanding and knowledge in the field of neutrino astronomy. IceCube is a unique telescope located at the South Pole. (However, students will not travel to the South Pole). Unlike traditional optical telescopes, IceCube looks at the universe via particles called neutrinos. Physics World deemed IceCube's observation of extraterrestrial neutrinos, a result that ushered in the era of neutrino astronomy, the physics breakthrough of the year 2013. With access to IceCube data, high performance computing resources, and personnel, the students will make real contributions while acquiring research skills that are transferrable to many fields of science, technology, and engineering. Under the guidance of faculty advisors who have many years of experience successfully supervising undergraduate research, students will contribute to resolving some of the biggest puzzles in particle astrophysics: the origin of high-energy cosmic rays, the nature of neutrino oscillations, and the composition of dark matter.

该奖项支持威斯康星大学河瀑布分校一个新的本科生研究经验（REU）站点，每年为六名本科生提供为期十周的暑期研究经验，研究项目数据来自国际冰立方中微子天文台。为了在促进教学、培训和学习的同时促进发现和理解，学生将被整合到一个研究合作中，该合作开辟了中微子天文学领域，并在一个以学习和让本科生参与研究为优先事项的部门工作。学生将获得广泛的研究技能，将学会欣赏基础科学对社会的价值，并将学习如何进行有效的科学演讲和科学交流。学生将对冰立方实验做出贡献，这将有助于促进对中微子天文学领域的理解和知识。冰立方是位于南极的独特望远镜。（然而，学生们不会去南极旅行。）与传统的光学望远镜不同，冰立方是通过一种叫做中微子的粒子来观察宇宙的。《物理世界》将冰立方观测到的地外中微子视为2013年的物理学突破，这一结果开启了中微子天文学时代。通过访问冰立方数据、高性能计算资源和人员，学生将在获得可转移到许多科学、技术和工程领域的研究技能的同时做出真正的贡献。在具有多年成功指导本科生研究经验的指导教师的指导下，学生将为解决粒子天体物理学中一些最大的难题做出贡献：高能宇宙射线的起源，中微子振荡的本质，以及暗物质的组成。