An RUI Proposal to Investigate the Neutron Drip Line Using the Modular Neutron Array

中央密歇根大学是一个由100个机构组成的合作项目的创始成员，他们共同建造了一个耗资100万美元的高效中子探测器，供国家超导回旋实验室使用。模块化中子阵列(MONA)是研究远离稳定性的原子核的重要仪器。合作的一个独特之处是，合作的许多成员主要来自本科院校，本科生的参与是该项目的根本目标。在MONA合作项目中，中密歇根大学的本科生在MoNA的建设和运行中发挥了不可或缺的作用；他们建造了探测器条、有线电子设备、编写代码、卫星移位，并完成了在线和离线数据分析。MONA合作在让本科生参与一线研究方面非常成功。这项提议将允许PI和他来自中密歇根大学的本科生继续参与实验计划。此外，该提案提出了一种模式，不仅可以维持以本科生和本科生教职员工为基础的活动合作的势头，而且还可以将合作转移到更积极参与所有实验和数据分析的本科生。如果这些措施成功，它们将为在用户设施中参与尖端实验物理的本科生提供一个原型。

Central Michigan University is a charter member of a collaboration of 10institutions that worked together to construct a million dollar, highefficiency neutron detector for use at the National SuperconductingCyclotron Laboratory. The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a criticalinstrument in the study of nuclei far from stability. One of the uniqueaspects of the collaboration is that many of the members of thecollaboration are from primarily undergraduate institutions and theinvolvement of undergraduate students is fundamental goal of the project. In the MoNA collaboration undergraduate students from Central MichiganUniversity have play integral roles in the construction and operation ofMoNA; they have built detector bars, wired electronics, written code, satshifts, and done both on- and off-line data analysis.The MoNA collaboration has been remarkably successful at involvingundergraduate students in front-line research. This proposal will permitthe PI and his undergraduates from Central Michigan University to continueto participate in the experimental program. In addition, the proposalpresents a model for not only sustaining the momentum of an activecollaboration based on students and faculty from undergraduatedepartments, but also moves the collaboration to more actively involveundergraduates in all the experimental runs and in data analysis. If thesemeasures are successful, they will provide a prototype for involvingundergraduates in cutting-edge experimental physics at user facilities.