REU Site: Nevis Labs, Columbia University for Summers 2020-2022

该奖项支持哥伦比亚大学尼维斯实验室本科生高能物理和天体物理实验研究经验（REU）站点的更新。该网站每年将支持10名本科生在一名教师导师的指导下进行原创的、前沿的物理研究。每年有两名学生将在瑞士的欧洲核研究组织的大型强子对撞机上进行夏季研究。REU项目为本科生提供了参与尖端研究的机会，并参与项目所需的技术和计算工具的开发。通过一系列广泛的讲座和实验室参观，学生们也接触到许多其他物理领域中最令人兴奋的问题。学生们在夏季花十周的时间参与尼维斯高能物理、核物理和粒子天体物理研究项目，该项目旨在解决这些领域最紧迫的问题，包括质量的起源、中微子振荡问题和暗物质的寻找。这些问题的答案将对我们理解宇宙的基本结构和进化产生深远的影响。尼维斯研究项目的优势，加上尼维斯世界一流的电子设计和机械结构基础设施，形成了一个独特的环境，为学生提供了培训机会。由于各种各样的实验都处于不同的发展阶段，尼维斯为学生提供了从最初的探测器设计、硬件开发和构建到软件开发和数据分析等各个方面获得实验经验的机会。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 renewal of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in experimental high energy physics and astrophysics at Nevis Labs, Columbia University. The site will support ten undergraduate students per year in original, cutting-edge physics research, working with a faculty mentor. Two students per year will spend the summer conducting research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland at the Large Hadron Collider. The REU program provides the opportunity for undergraduates to join in the excitement of cutting-edge research, as well as to participate in the development of the technological and computational tools required for the projects. Through an extensive series of lectures and lab visits, the students are also exposed to the most exciting problems in many other fields of physics.The students spend ten weeks during the summer participating in the broad Nevis high energy physics, nuclear physics, and particle astrophysics research program, which seeks to address the most pressing issues of these fields, including the origin of mass, the question of neutrino oscillations, and the search for Dark Matter. Answers to these questions will have profound implications for our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe. The strength of the Nevis research program, coupled with the Nevis infrastructure of world class electronics design and mechanical construction, forms a unique environment with opportunities for training of students. As the variety of experiments are at different stages in their development, Nevis provides the opportunity for students to gain experience in all aspects of the experiments, from initial detector design, hardware development and construction, to software development and data analysis.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.