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

该奖项支持在实验高能物理和天体物理学在尼维斯实验室，哥伦比亚大学本科生（REU）网站的研究经验的更新。该网站将支持10名本科生，每年在原来的，尖端的物理研究，与教师导师工作。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研究。REU计划为本科生提供了参与前沿研究的机会，以及参与项目所需的技术和计算工具的开发。通过广泛的系列讲座和实验室参观，学生们也接触到许多其他物理领域最令人兴奋的问题。学生们在夏季花十周时间参加广泛的尼维斯高能物理，核物理和粒子天体物理研究计划，旨在解决这些领域最紧迫的问题，包括质量起源，中微子振荡问题，以及寻找暗物质这些问题的答案将对我们理解宇宙的基本结构和演化产生深远的影响。尼维斯研究计划的实力，加上尼维斯世界一流的电子设计和机械制造基础设施，形成了一个独特的环境，为学生提供培训机会。由于各种实验处于不同的发展阶段，尼维斯为学生提供了机会，让他们在实验的各个方面获得经验，从最初的探测器设计，硬件开发和建设，到软件开发和数据分析。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.