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

该奖项将支持更新三角大学核实验室(TUNL)和杜克大学本科生研究经验(REU)网站，并在瑞士日内瓦的欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)提供国际组成部分。TUNL是一个研究联盟，由北卡罗来纳州三角地区的三所主要大学、杜克大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校组成。该项目将为学生提供参与研究核物理和粒子物理的广泛课题的机会。八名学生将在TUNL进行研究，其他四名学生将在欧洲核子研究中心度过他们夏天的一部分时间，与杜克大学的高能物理小组合作。这个REU暑期项目通过参与核物理和粒子物理前沿的科学调查，为本科生提供为期十周的积极研究体验。每个学生都被分配了一名教师导师，并被整合到一个由教师、博士后、研究生和其他本科生组成的研究小组。通过积极的研究、研讨会、实验室参观和讨论小组，学生们接触到核物理和粒子物理研究的各个方面，以及他们与其他科学领域的联系。讲座和研讨会主题分别侧重于TUNL和CERN的核物理和粒子物理研究活动。学生们将有机会与世界知名的物理学家互动，学习该领域最先进的理论概念，并使用这些研究领域使用的最先进技术。

This award will support the renewal of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and Duke University Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site with an international component at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. 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 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 for ten weeks through participation in scientific investigations at the frontiers of nuclear and particle physics. Each student is assigned a faculty mentor and is integrated into a research group consisting of faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other undergraduate students. 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. The students will have opportunities to interact with world-renowned physicists, learn about the most advanced theoretical concepts in the fields, and work with state-of-the-art technologies used in these research areas.