EAGER: Investigating the Use of Carbon Monofilament Wires to Improve the Design of the Slow Proton Recoil Detector for the Jefferson Lab BONuS12 Experiment

EAGER：研究使用碳单丝线来改进杰斐逊实验室 BONuS12 实验的慢质子反冲探测器的设计

• 批准号: 1649870
• 负责人: Michael Christy
• 金额: $ 29.85万
• 依托单位: Hampton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649870&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Investigating; Use; Carbon; Monofilament

The National Science Foundation uses the Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) funding mechanism to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. This EAGER project was awarded as a result of the invitation in the Dear Colleague Letter NSF 16-080 to proposers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to submit proposals that would strengthen research capacity of faculty at the institution. The project at Hampton University aims to study the merits of using monofiliment carbon wires in drift chambers, and to develop a low recoil proton detector. If this project succeeds, the resulting knowledge can be used to develop future carbon nanotube wire chambers, which would be a possibly transformative development in experimental nuclear and particle physics. The project involves training of the next generation of physicists at Hampton University.As part of the project, the investigation into the usage of carbon mono lament wires for construction of the cathode layer and/or an additional inner wire chamber for the BONuS12 detector will be carried out in parallel with development work on the currently planned, but lower risk, design. The current project is one of the first to investigate usage of such wires in an cylindrical detector. More generally, the usage of carbon mono laments could be a boon for experiments requiring detection and tracking of low momentum protons and nuclei due to the potentially significant reduction in energy lost over traditional metal wires. The technology for producing carbon nanotube wires offering conductivity surpassing that of copper wires has just now become available, with mass production likely available over the next few years.This EAGER is co-funded by the Directorates for Education & Human Resources and Mathematical & Physical Sciences.

美国国家科学基金会使用探索性研究早期概念赠款（EAGER）资助机制，以支持未经测试但可能具有变革性的研究想法或方法的早期阶段的探索性工作。EAGER项目是由于在亲爱的同事信NSF 16-080中邀请来自历史上黑人学院和大学的提议者提交提案，以加强该机构教师的研究能力而获得的。汉普顿大学的这个项目旨在研究在漂移室中使用单丝碳丝的优点，并开发一种低反冲质子探测器。如果这个项目成功，所产生的知识可以用于开发未来的碳纳米管线室，这将是实验核和粒子物理学的一个可能的变革性发展。该项目涉及在汉普顿大学培训下一代物理学家。作为该项目的一部分，将与目前计划但风险较低的设计的开发工作同时进行对使用碳单金属丝建造阴极层和/或BONuS 12探测器的附加内部丝室的调查。目前的项目是第一个调查在圆柱形探测器中使用这种导线的项目之一。更一般地说，碳单原子的使用对于需要检测和跟踪低动量质子和原子核的实验来说可能是一个布恩，因为在传统金属线上能量损失的潜在显著减少。碳纳米管导线的导电性超过铜线的技术刚刚问世，未来几年可能会大规模生产。EAGER由教育人力资源和数学物理科学局共同资助。