IRES: Science and Engineering at the World's Largest Accelerator Facility

IRES：世界上最大的加速器设施的科学与工程

• 批准号: 1658621
• 负责人: Philip Rubin
• 金额: $ 24.84万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Science; Engineering; World; Largest

This award supports a collaboration between George Mason University (GMU) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Through this project, eighteen undergraduate students (six per year) will participate in a nine-week Summer research and training experience at CERN. CERN is among the most vibrant and international research centers in the world. Its scientific instruments - accelerators and detectors - are some of the largest and most technically complex ever built. All aspects of accelerator-focused research and design are carried out there. While fundamental particle physics is CERN's primary mission, active work is also undertaken in nuclear, molecular, and atomic physics, as well as detector and accelerator design and computing methods and infrastructure. Participating students will attend a one-week orientation and training workshop at GMU, and then spend eight weeks at CERN undertaking research projects related to CERN's particle accelerators and detectors. The students are guided in their research by internationally-trained, CERN-affiliated scientists, engineers, or computer specialists, and are co-supervised by the PI. Participants are part of CERN?s Summer Student Programme, which hosts nearly 300 undergraduates from around Europe and other countries. For participating students, this is an international learning and networking experience that may very well turn out to be among the highlights of their academic careers.Principal Investigator Rubin is a member of the NA62 collaboration, a group of about 200 physicists from Europe, Russia, and North America, which is investigating ultra-rare kaon decays in a fixed target experiment using beam from CERN?s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). IRES participants may indicate preferences for work in any of the research areas available at CERN. In this project, participants will be advanced STEM students recruited from US academic institutions with a highly diverse student body. At the conclusion of their Summer experiences, the student researchers will complete a presentation and a technical note reporting their research results.

该奖项支持乔治·梅森大学（GMU）与欧洲核研究组织（CERN）之间的合作。 通过这个项目，十八年的本科生（每年六名）将参加CERN的为期九周的夏季研究和培训经验。 CERN是世界上最有活力和国际研究中心之一。它的科学仪器 - 加速器和探测器 - 是有史以来最大，技术上最复杂的一些。以加速器为重点的研究和设计的所有方面都在那里进行。 尽管基本粒子物理是CERN的主要任务，但在核，分子和原子物理学以及探测器和加速器的设计和计算方法和基础架构中也进行了积极的工作。参与的学生将参加一个为期一周的方向和培训研讨会，然后在CERN待了八个星期，从事与CERN粒子加速器和探测器有关的研究项目。这些学生受到国际培训，由CERN附属的科学家，工程师或计算机专家的指导，并由PI共同监督。参与者是CERN夏季学生计划的一部分，该计划拥有来自欧洲和其他国家的近300名本科生。对于参与的学生，这是一种国际学习和网络经验，很可能是他们的学术职业的亮点之一。首选研究员鲁宾是NA62合作的成员，NA62合作是来自欧洲，俄罗斯和北美的大约200名物理学家，它正在使用CERN的固定目标实验中的固定目标实验中的SpernChron（Sperpots Synchrron）在固定的目标实验中衰减，这是在固定的目标实验中的衰落。 IRES参与者可以在CERN可用的任何研究领域表明对工作的偏好。 在这个项目中，参与者将是从美国学术机构招募的高级STEM学生。在夏季经验结束时，学生研究人员将完成一份演讲和一份技术说明，以报告其研究结果。