IRES: Studying the Nucleon Structure in Orsay, France

这个为期三年的学生国际研究体验 (IRES) 项目每年将派遣六名美国学生（两名研究生和四名本科生）到法国奥赛核物理研究所 (IPN-奥赛) 的强子物理小组进行为期八周的研究。 这些研究项目将来自核物理领域的广泛学科，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中招募女性和少数族裔参与者。该项目将使学生在国际工作环境中培养协作思维和沟通技巧，与外国科学家建立全球网络，并深入了解未来的职业生涯。 该项目的信念是，国际合作将通过激发全球视野来推进学术发展，学生必须为未来日益全球化的工作环境中的职业做好准备。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构成的，夸克和胶子是量子色动力学的基本自由度。核子结构的现代研究是通过与重要国际机构的大规模合作在大型核研究设施中进行的。该项目支持美国学生参与奥赛核物理研究所 (IPN-奥赛) 强子物理小组正在进行的研究活动。 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）通过弯曲晶体的粒子通道研究，（4）MWPC（多线比例室）和GEM（气体电子倍增器）探测器的性能研究，（5）金刚石探测器的性能研究，以及（6）核子结构3D建模的软件开发。 美国学生参与这些项目支持在核物理前沿培养受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.