Microcomputer-Controlled Automated Nuclear Counting for Advanced Physics Laboratory

这是一个创新项目，将用于材料研究的核计数技术引入典型研究型大学的高级本科生物理实验室课程。该项目的具体目标是指导物理专业的学生使用核计数仪器及其与计算机控制的自动数据采集系统的使用。通过弗吉尼亚物理联盟，我们地区大学的学生和正在接受重新认证的教师也参与了该项目。此外，来自Old Dominion其他科学和工程系的学生正在通过材料科学计划被整合到该项目中。核计数教学的目的是发展和提高核物理以及凝聚态物质和材料物理的实验技能。通过使用一种流行的核共振探头测量一些常见铁氧化物的低温微观磁性质，正在获得核仪器的经验。该项目的推出是为了培训理工科学生，他们现在正在我们当地的研究机构杰斐逊国家实验室(前CEBAF)和NASA朗格利找到工作。此外，由于我们许多即将毕业的大四学生正在进入我们不断扩大的核物理研究计划，我们将这一需求视为对我们本科生计划的重要改进。这个本科项目满足了我们最近修订的本科课程的目标，让即将毕业的大四学生接触到一种近乎于研究的体验。该项目还将继续允许我们的高年级学生参与口头和海报演示，并可能发布他们的一些原始发现。该项目是使用廉价的核计数技术研究凝聚态物质和材料物理的高级本科生教学的新榜样。*

This is an innovative project which introduces nuclear counting techniques for the study of materials into a senior undergraduate physics laboratory course at a typical research university. The specific goal of the project is to instruct physics majors in the use of nuclear counting instruments and their use with computer controlled automated data acquisition system. Through the Virginia Physics Consortium, students from our regional universities and teachers undergoing re-certification, are also participating in the project. Additionally, students from Old Dominion's other science and engineering departments are being integrated into the project through the Materials Science Program. The nuclear counting instruction are aimed at developing and improving experimental skills in Nuclear Physics as well as Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Experiences with the nuclear instrumentation are being obtained by using a popular nuclear resonance probe to measure low temperature microscopic magnetic properties of some common iron oxides. The project is being introduced in order to train science and engineering students who are now finding employment at our local research affiliations, The Jefferson National Laboratory (formerly CEBAF) and NASA Langely. In addition, since many of our graduating seniors are entering our expanding research program in Nuclear Physics, we see this need as an important improvement to our undergraduate program. This undergraduate project meets the goals of our recently revised undergraduate curriculum by exposing graduating seniors to a near research experience. The project will also continue to allow our senior students to be involved with oral and poster presentations and possibly publication of some of their original findings. The project is a novel role model for senior level undergraduate instruction using inexpensive nuclear counting techniques for investigations in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. *