The 2022 Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation: Exploring the Nuclear Matter

ORAL

Abstract

The “Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation (PING): Exploring the Nuclear Matter” is held annually at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. It includes a two-week summer program and year-round research opportunity for high school and middle school students, as well as a year-round research component for undergraduate students on basic and applied nuclear physics topics. Eighteen pre-college participants worked with six undergraduate students in PING 2022 to assemble and perform experiments using the Rutherford scattering experiment kit from Leybold. They compared their data to Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, the students tested the performances of 25 cm long scintillators with cross sectional areas of 2.5x2.5 cm2 and 5x5 cm2 as part of a R&D effort for a next generation neutron detector by the MoNA Collaboration. The pre-college participants represented schools from California, Florida, Michigan, Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. The middle and high school students will present results from their research and discuss their experiences in the program.

*This work was partly supported by the National Science Foundation award PHY-2012040 and by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661.

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Presenters

  • Paul L Gueye

    • FRIB/NSCL

Authors

  • Paul L Gueye

    • FRIB/NSCL

  • Thomas J Baumann

    • Facility for Rare Isotope Beams/Michigan State University
    • Michigan State University

  • Yannick Gueye

    • Michigan State University

  • Joshua S Marshall

    • Morgan State University

  • Dominic I Davis

    • Morgan State University

  • Eric Pierce

    • Virginia Union University

  • Jayla Edwards

    • Michigan State University

  • Donovan L Flagg

    • University of Missouri
    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Casey Hulbert

    • Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

  • Tieler Graham

    • Haslett High school, Haslett, MI

  • Astro Bren

    • Phoebus High School, Hampton, VA

  • Rocio Di Maria

    • Olympic Heights High School, Boca Raton FL

  • Trysten Harris

    • Hillgrove High School, Powder Spring, GA

  • Drake Hollins

    • Kearsley High School, Flint, MI

  • Jacob Ryabinky

    • Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach FL

  • Kevin Brooks-II

    • Lansing Christian School, Lansing, MI

  • Bradley Thomas

    • Glen Rock High School, Glen Rock, NJ

  • Skyler Hamlin

    • East Lansing High School, East Lansing, MI

  • Guhyun Jeong

    • East Lasing High School, East Lansing, MI

  • Addison Hannah

    • Mercy High School, Farmington Hills, MI

  • Thomas Hays

    • Napoleon High School, Napoleon, MI

  • Philip Carrington

    • West Bloomfield High School, West Bloomfield, MI

  • Bryan Robles

    • Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, CA

  • Han Truong

    • East Lansing High School, East Lansing, MI

  • Brenden Lamp

    • Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation

  • Nolan Tusing

    • Paxon School for Advanced Studies, Jacksonville, FL