Education and Public Outreach at the Soudan Mine Underground Lab

苏丹矿井地下实验室的教育和公共宣传

• 批准号: 0758090
• 负责人: Alec Habig
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota Duluth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0758090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Public; Outreach; Soudan; Mine

PROPOSAL NUMBER: 0758090INSTITUTION: U of Minnesota DuluthNSF PROGRAM: PHY - ELEMENTARY PARTICLE ACCEL USERPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Habig, Alec T.TITLE: Education and Public Outreach at the Soudan Mine Underground Lab ABSTRACTThis proposal requests funding for the public outreach program at the Soudan Mine Underground Laboratory, the country?s only operational underground high energy particle physics and astrophysics facility. The Lab is hosted in a Minnesota State Park, where each year about 4,000 of the Park?s visitors venture 2,341 feet underground to see the facility, the MINOS and CDMS-II experiments, and to learn about neutrinos and Dark Matter. Support is requested to continue the successful program which has been in place since the MINOS detector was completed in 2003. The Soudan Underground Mine is a historical site operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in an old iron mine in Northern Minnesota. Around 28,000 people per year take the ?historical? tour in the park, visiting the workings at the bottom of the ½-mile deep mine. The Laboratory is also on that lowest level of the mine, where experiments benefit from the 10**5 reduction in the cosmic ray background compared to the Earth?s surface. This proposal is centered on the broader impact, but the outreach program described here has a significant impact on, and supports the intellectual merit of, the underlying science program. The coincidence of an established education and outreach program, a top-notch research facility, and an unusual and impressive location provide a great opportunity to bring students and the general public into the lab where they learn about the often esoteric world of particle physics in an intriguing and accessible fashion. They also propose to fund an annual Open House at Vermillion Community College in nearby Ely, MN. This will help give the lab a high and positive profile in the community as well as bring the science to even more people.

提案编号：0758090机构：明尼苏达大学德卢斯分校 NSF 计划：PHY - 基本粒子加速 用户主要调查员：Habig、Alec T.TITLE：Soudan 矿井地下实验室的教育和公共外展 摘要本提案要求为 Soudan 矿井地下的公共外展项目提供资金实验室是该国唯一运行的地下高能粒子物理和该实验室位于明尼苏达州立公园内，每年约有 4,000 名公园游客冒险进入 2,341 英尺的地下参观该设施、MINOS 和 CDMS-II 实验，并了解中微子和暗物质支持。要求继续执行自 2003 年 MINOS 探测器完成以来一直在实施的成功计划。Soudan 地下矿是明尼苏达州自然资源部运营的一处历史遗址(DNR) 位于明尼苏达州北部的一个旧铁矿，每年约有 28,000 人参加公园的“历史”之旅，参观 0.5 英里深矿井底部的工作区。与地球表面相比，该矿井的实验受益于宇宙射线背景减少 10**5。该提案的重点是更广泛的影响，但此处描述的外展计划具有重大影响并支持该项目。智力优点基础科学项目的巧合、一流的研究设施以及不寻常且令人印象深刻的地理位置，为将学生和公众带入实验室提供了一个绝佳的机会，让他们了解常见的知识。他们还提议资助明尼苏达州伊利附近的弗米利恩社区学院举办一年一度的开放日活动，这将有助于该实验室在社区中获得较高的积极形象，并为该实验室带来积极的影响。让科学带给更多的人。