REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL/Duke University

该奖项支持三角大学核实验室（TUNL）和杜克大学物理学本科生研究经验（REU）站点。TUNL是由北卡罗来纳三角地区的三所主要大学，杜克大学，北卡罗莱纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校组成的研究联盟。该奖项将支持12名本科生进行为期10周的暑期研究，研究主题为核物理和粒子物理。八名学生将在TUNL进行研究，另外四名学生将在欧洲核子研究中心与杜克大学高能物理小组一起度过他们夏季的一部分时间。每个学生都被分配一名教师导师，并被纳入一个由教师、博士后、研究生和其他本科生组成的研究小组。此外，学生们还有机会参观联盟大学的物理系，了解这些机构的研究生课程，并了解每个院系的研究范围。通过积极的研究、研讨会、实验室参观和讨论小组，学生们接触到核与粒子物理研究的各个方面以及它们与其他科学领域的联系。讲座和研讨会的主题分别强调了TUNL和CERN的核物理和粒子物理研究活动。学生将有机会与世界知名的物理学家互动，学习该领域最先进的理论概念，并在这些研究领域使用最先进的技术。此外，科学写作和口头报告的专业发展活动构成了REU计划的重要组成部分。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in physics at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and Duke University. TUNL is a research consortium consisting of three major universities in the North Carolina Triangle Area, Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award will support twelve undergraduates for ten weeks of summer research on topics in nuclear and particle physics. Eight students will conduct research at TUNL, and the other four will spend part of their summer at CERN working with the Duke high-energy physics group. Each student is assigned a faculty mentor and is integrated into a research group consisting of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and other undergraduate students. In addition, the students have opportunities to visit the physics departments at the consortium universities to learn about the graduate programs at these institutions and to see the scope of research pursued in each department.Through active research, seminars, lab tours, and discussion groups, the students are exposed to various aspects of nuclear and particle physics research and their connections to other science areas. Lecture and seminar topics are chosen to emphasize the nuclear and particle physics research activities at TUNL and CERN, respectively. The students will have opportunities to interact with world-renowned physicists, learn about the most advanced theoretical concepts in the fields, and work with state-of-the-art technologies used in these research areas. Also, professional development activities in scientific writing and oral presentations constitute an important component of the REU program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.