REU Site: Multidisciplinary Underground Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

REU 站点：桑福德地下研究设施的多学科地下科学

• 批准号: 1560474
• 负责人: Brianna Mount
• 金额: $ 25.81万
• 依托单位: Black Hills State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Multidisciplinary; Underground; Science

Black Hills State University (BHSU) will host a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program centered on underground science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). This program will recruit 6-8 undergraduate students each year to participate in exciting underground research projects as well as professional development, social and outreach activities. Underground science offers possibilities for research across a variety of disciplines including physics, chemistry and biology. Recruitment efforts of the BHSU REU site will be especially focused on American Indian, female and community college students. Some of the most important physics experiments of our time are currently in operation at SURF, searching for dark matter and investigating properties of the neutrino. Students will be offered the opportunity to engage in research related to these experiments by assaying materials for radiopurity measurements, using Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the effect of those materials on detectors and testing the chemical purity of noble gases. Additionally, research at SURF is being carried out in the study of life deep underground, with applications to medicine and astrobiology, in particular in the diversity of microbial environments and in the isolation of novel microbes. Complementary chemistry research will also be performed to determine the local environment in which these microbes live.

黑山州立大学（BHSU）将在桑福德地下研究设施（SURF）举办为期10周的本科生研究体验（REU）项目，重点是地下科学。该计划每年将招收6-8名本科生参加令人兴奋的地下研究项目以及专业发展，社会和推广活动。地下科学为包括物理学、化学和生物学在内的各种学科的研究提供了可能性。BHSU REU网站的招聘工作将特别侧重于美国印第安人、女性和社区大学生。我们这个时代最重要的一些物理实验目前正在SURF进行，寻找暗物质和研究中微子的性质。学生将有机会通过分析放射性纯度测量材料，使用蒙特卡罗模拟来研究这些材料对探测器的影响，并测试惰性气体的化学纯度，参与与这些实验有关的研究。此外，SURF的研究正在进行地下深处生命的研究，并应用于医学和天体生物学，特别是微生物环境的多样性和新微生物的分离。还将进行补充化学研究，以确定这些微生物生活的当地环境。