REU Site: Physics Research at UC Davis

REU 网站：加州大学戴维斯分校物理研究

• 批准号: 1560482
• 负责人: Rena Zieve
• 金额: $ 33.62万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560482&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Physics; Research; UC

This award supports the renewal of the physics Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of California, Davis. Each year, the REU program will provide ten or eleven students from around the United States an opportunity to participate in a ten-week summer research program. REU students work closely with a faculty mentor on a ten-week research project in a variety of physics subfields. The projects span the subfields of astrophysics, biophysics, complex systems, condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics. Examples include developing new photomultipliers for dark matter searches, analyzing spectroscopic data to learn about the molecules present in distant planet-forming regions, designing new proteins with useful energy storage properties, and exploring strongly correlated materials through nuclear magnetic resonance. In addition to their specific research project, the students learn from their interactions with faculty, graduate students, and other REU students, and from field trips showing physics-related work in diverse settings -- students will visit facilities such as the McClellan Nuclear Research Center, Lick Observatory, and the Advanced Light Source. Former UC Davis REU students now working in the San Francisco Bay Area will also describe their career paths to current participants. At the end of the program, each participant gives a formal research presentation and presents a written project report that can lead to a peer reviewed publication. Taken as a whole, the REU activities teach skills useful for further scientific endeavors, give students a broad perspective on possible future paths, and help them build a network of professional contacts. The program especially targets students from small colleges with limited research opportunities and those from groups underrepresented in physics, including women and students from certain minority groups.

该奖项支持更新加州大学戴维斯分校的本科生物理研究经验（REU）网站。每年，REU计划将提供来自美国各地的10或11名学生有机会参加为期10周的夏季研究计划。REU学生与教师导师密切合作，在各种物理子领域进行为期十周的研究项目。这些项目涵盖天体物理学、生物物理学、复杂系统、凝聚态物质、核和粒子物理学等子领域。 例子包括开发用于暗物质搜索的新型光电倍增管，分析光谱数据以了解遥远行星形成区域中存在的分子，设计具有有用能量存储特性的新蛋白质，以及通过核磁共振探索强相关材料。除了他们的具体研究项目，学生们从他们与教师，研究生和其他REU学生的互动中学习，并从实地考察中了解不同环境中与物理相关的工作-学生们将参观麦克莱伦核研究中心，利克天文台和先进光源等设施。目前在弗朗西斯科湾区工作的前加州大学戴维斯分校REU学生也将向当前参与者描述他们的职业道路。在计划结束时，每个参与者都会给出一个正式的研究报告，并提交一份书面项目报告，该报告可以导致同行评审的出版物。总的来说，REU活动教授对进一步科学努力有用的技能，为学生提供未来可能道路的广阔视角，并帮助他们建立专业联系网络。该计划特别针对来自研究机会有限的小型学院的学生，以及来自物理学代表性不足的群体的学生，包括妇女和某些少数群体的学生。

项目成果

Dirac lines and loop at the Fermi level in the time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductor LaNiGa2

• DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00771-5
• 发表时间: 2022-01-13
• 期刊: COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
• 影响因子: 5.5
• 作者: Badger, Jackson R.;Quan, Yundi;Taufour, Valentin
• 通讯作者: Taufour, Valentin

Search for dark photon dark matter: Dark E field radio pilot experiment

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.104.012013
• 发表时间: 2021-01
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Benjamin Godfrey;J. Tyson;S. Hillbrand;J. Balajthy;D. Polin;S. Tripathi;S. Klomp;Joseph Levine;Nate MacFadden;B. Kolner;M. Smith;P. Stucky;A. Phipps;P. Graham;K. Irwin

Cleaning our own dust: simulating and separating galactic dust foregrounds with neural networks

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3344
• 发表时间: 2019-09
• 期刊: arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
• 作者: K. Aylor;M. Haq;L. Knox;Y. Hezaveh;L. Perreault-Levasseur