IRES: Studying the Nucleon Structure in Orsay, France

这个为期三年的国际学生研究经验（IRES）项目将每年派遣六名美国学生（两名研究生和四名本科生）在法国奥赛的奥赛核物理研究所（IPN-奥赛）的强子物理组进行为期八周的研究。 研究项目将来自核物理学的广泛学科，包括探测器开发，数据分析和软件开发。 将特别强调从新英格兰和南弗吉尼亚州的机构招募妇女和少数民族参与者。该计划将使学生能够在国际工作环境中培养协作思维和沟通技能，与外国科学家建立全球网络，并深入了解未来的职业生涯。 该计划源于这样一种信念，即国际合作将通过刺激全球视角来促进奖学金，并且学生必须为未来日益全球化的工作环境中的职业生涯做好准备。现代核物理学的一个主要焦点是质子，中子和原子核是如何由夸克和胶子组成的，这是量子色动力学的基本自由度。核子结构的现代研究是在大型核研究设施中通过与重要的国际组成部分的大规模合作进行的。该项目支持美国学生参与正在进行的研究活动的强子物理组在物理研究所核d？奥赛（IPN-奥赛）。 计划的项目包括：（1）中子探测器的探测效率研究，（2）核碎片探测器的开发，（3）弯曲晶体中粒子通道的研究，（4）多壁光子晶体的性能研究（多丝正比室）和GEM（气体电子倍增器）探测器，（5）金刚石探测器的性能研究，和（6）核子结构的三维建模软件开发。 美国学生参与这些项目，支持在核物理的最前沿培养一支经过全球培训的有竞争力的劳动力队伍。

This three-year International Research Experience for Students (IRES) project will annually send six U.S. students (two graduate students and four undergraduates) for eight weeks to conduct research in the hadron physics group at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPN- Orsay) in Orsay, France. The research projects will come from a wide range of subjects in nuclear physics including detector development, data analysis and software development. A particular emphasis will be made to recruit women and minority participants from institutions in New England and Southern Virginia. This program will enable the students to develop collaborative thinking and communication skills in an international working environment, establish a global network with foreign scientists, and gain insight into a future career. This program emerges from the beliefs that international collaboration will advance scholarship by stimulating global perspectives, and that students must be prepared for their careers in the increasingly globally engaged working environment of the future.A major focus of modern nuclear physics concerns how protons, neutrons, and atomic nuclei are made of quarks and gluons, the fundamental degrees of freedom of quantum chromodynamics. Modern studies of the nucleon structure are conducted at large-scale nuclear research facilities by large collaborations with a significant international component. This project supports US student participation in the ongoing research activities of the hadron physics group at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d?Orsay (IPN- Orsay). The planned projects include (1) detection efficiency studies of a neutron detector, (2) development of a nuclear fragment detector, (3) studies of the particle channeling via bent crystals, (4) performance studies of MWPC (Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber) and GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) detectors, (5) performance studies of diamond detectors, and (6) software development of 3-D modeling of the nucleon structure. US student participation in these projects supports the development of a globally trained competitive workforce at the forefront of nuclear physics.