Nuclear Physics Outreach Programme

核物理推广计划

• 批准号: ST/S005900/1
• 负责人: Rachel Montgomery
• 金额: $ 1.9万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FS005900%2F1
• 关键词: Nuclear; Physics; Outreach; Programme

This proposed programme primarily aims to increase the overall knowledge and understanding of nuclear physics within local communities in an interactive and novel way, portraying nuclear physics as an active and exciting field of scientific research. Specifically, the aim is to enhance levels of understanding regarding experimental techniques such as fixed target scattering experiments and the concept of particle kinematics, as well as fundamental concepts in nuclear physics like the nuclide chart, nuclear fusion/fission reactions and the binding energy of nuclei. The aim is also to raise the important awareness of crucial applications relying on nuclear physics which are useful and relevant to every day life, for example nuclear medicine, or meeting future energy demands through the realisation of novel fusion technology.Our proposed programme is extremely timely, as we plan to take advantage of an upcoming large scale international platform around which to coordinate our activities. We expect this to kick-start future development and continuation of our activities. The International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC) series is the largest international conference devoted to fundamental nuclear physics research. The 2019 instance (INPC2019) will be held, in the end of July 2019, at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. The Nuclear and Hadron Physics (NHP) Research Group of the University of Glasgow (UoG) led the successful bid to bring INPC2019 to Glasgow and are chairing the organisation of the conference. The direct objective of this proposal is to organise a series of nuclear physics outreach events which will form a large scale public engagement component of the INPC2019.The goal is to educate as many members of the general public and local communities as possible, but school pupils and school teachers will be targeted, including schools from disadvantaged areas. Scientific peers and science communicators (STEM ambassadors) will also be included and invited to take part. The objective of this is to generate future opportunities for the resources we will develop to be re-used and disseminated widely and successfully within the STEM community.The objectives are to develop materials for and host a series of nuclear physics themed events. This will include teacher training, a masterclass, a workshop, and a novel temporary pop-up exhibition. The exhibition will be re-usable for science museums/events and will be centred around the focal point of an eye-catching 3D, 8m long, complete model of the nuclide chart, constructed from LEGO. This chart was developed by the University of York (UoY) Binding Blocks (BB) team. To establish the programme beyond our events, we aim to provide classroom activity resources for teachers.We anticipate the main impact generated by our programme to be knowledge exchange, having strong educational value. This would occur directly at our events and beyond, within classrooms. The educational content of the programme is designed to be universally accessible, however, to a certain extent it has been aligned with current school curricula and the STFC "Inside the Atom - connections to the curriculum" resources material. The programme will therefore create its highest levels of impact within schools and the educational community.Having visited and engaged with our events and exhibition, participants are expected to have an increased understanding of nuclear physics, increased awareness of the relevance of nuclear physics to everyday life and realise that radiation is universally present and not always harmful. Through hands-on activities and a novel eye-catching exhibition, incorporating virtual multimedia elements, participants will recognise that fundamental science is fun and interactive. Visitors from STEM communication and scientific research communities, who will be included, may wish to initiate future collaborative opportunities, providing further dissemination of our resources.

该拟议方案的主要目的是以互动和新颖的方式增加当地社区对核物理的总体知识和理解，将核物理描绘为一个活跃和令人兴奋的科学研究领域。具体而言，目的是提高对实验技术的理解水平，如固定目标散射实验和粒子运动学概念，以及核物理学中的基本概念，如核素图，核聚变/裂变反应和原子核的结合能。我们的目标也是提高人们对依赖于核物理的重要应用的重要认识，这些应用对日常生活是有用的和相关的，例如核医学，或者通过实现新的聚变技术来满足未来的能源需求。我们提出的计划非常及时，因为我们计划利用即将到来的大规模国际平台来协调我们的活动。我们希望这将启动我们未来的发展和活动的继续。国际核物理会议（INPC）是致力于基础核物理研究的最大的国际会议。2019年的实例（INPC 2019）将于2019年7月底在格拉斯哥的苏格兰活动校园举行。格拉斯哥大学（UoG）的核和强子物理（NHP）研究小组成功地将INPC 2019带到了格拉斯哥，并主持了会议的组织工作。该提案的直接目标是组织一系列核物理外展活动，这些活动将成为INPC 2019的大规模公众参与部分，目标是教育尽可能多的公众和当地社区成员，但将针对学生和学校教师，包括贫困地区的学校。科学同行和科学传播者（STEM大使）也将被邀请参加。这样做的目的是为我们将开发的资源创造未来的机会，以便在STEM社区内广泛而成功地重复使用和传播。目标是为一系列核物理主题活动开发材料并举办活动。这将包括教师培训，大师班，研讨会和一个新颖的临时弹出式展览。该展览将可重复用于科学博物馆/活动，并将围绕一个引人注目的3D焦点，8米长，完整的核素图模型，由乐高建造。该图表由约克大学（UoY）结合块（BB）团队开发。为了在我们的活动之外建立这个项目，我们的目标是为教师提供课堂活动资源。我们预计我们的项目产生的主要影响是知识交流，具有很强的教育价值。这将直接发生在我们的活动和超越，在教室里。该方案的教育内容旨在普及，但在某种程度上，它已与现行学校课程和科技和金融中心“原子内部-与课程的联系”资源材料相一致。因此，该计划将在学校和教育界产生最大程度的影响。通过参观和参与我们的活动和展览，参与者有望加深对核物理的理解，提高对核物理与日常生活相关性的认识，并意识到辐射普遍存在，并不总是有害的。透过亲身实践的活动和新颖吸引眼球的展览，结合虚拟多媒体元素，参与者将认识到基础科学是有趣和互动的。来自STEM通信和科学研究社区的访客，谁将被包括在内，可能希望启动未来的合作机会，提供我们的资源的进一步传播。