COSM-HBCU Network

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COSM-HBCU Network
Norfolk State University Example
Mahbub Khandaker Norfolk State University
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COSM-Norfolk State University Partnership
Motivation To enhance minority education and
research in nuclear and particle physics .

• Profile of NSU
• Established in 1935.
• Fifth largest HBCU in the nation.
• Enrollment of more than 7000 students.
• Particularly dedicated to education in the
  sciences.
• Ranks 10th nationally among all institution
  types in the number of B.S. degrees in the
  physical sciences awarded to African Americans.

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COSM-Norfolk State University Partnership

• Profile of NSU (contd.)
• Successful program in the physical and life
  sciences Dozoretz National Institute for
  Minorities in the Applied Sciences (DNIMAS),
  estd. at NSU in 1986.

• DNIMAS, a mentorship program, has attracted
  some very talented African American students to
  the sciences.

• Currently, over 120 students in the physical
  and life sciences supported by the DNIMAS
  program.

• More than 50 of the students continue on to
  graduate schools after completion at NSU.

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Nuclear Particle Physics (NPP) Group at NSU

• Personnel
• Three full-time faculty members.
• Two research associates.
• Three undergraduate students.

• Research Program
• Precision measurement of neutral pion lifetime
  PrimEx.
• Precision measurements of spin structure of the
  nucleon.
• Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon.
• Meson spectroscopy in few-body decays.
• GDH sum rule and helicity structure of pion
  photoproduction.
• Development of ultra-compact high density
  calorimeters for
• high-energy experiments.

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NSU Students in NPP Research
(1994 - 2004) Minority Men Minority Women Majority Student
Students 20 11 3
Graduated 17 8 2
Still in School 3 3 1
Went for M.S. 7 4 1
Went for Ph.D. 2 1 1
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COSM-NSU Partnership Sub-award
A COSM-HBCU Partnership to Enhance Minority
Education and Research in Nuclear and Particle
Physics

• Partnership started in 2002
• Support for one research associate
  (half-time)
• NSUs School of Science Technology
  contribution - one-quarter.
• Support for two undergraduate students during
  the
• academic year and the summer periods.
• Support for some electronics and detector
  hardware.

• Scope of research work
• Detector development for photon flux
  normalization
• and luminosity control for the PrimEx
  experiment
• Total Absorption Shower Detector.
• Hardware development support for the PrimEx
  Hybrid calorimeter HYCAL.

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Current Participating HBCU Institutions

• HBCU Connections
• Total of 12 Institutions.

• PrimEx Institutions
• North Carolina AT State University (NC AT)
• Norfolk State University (NSU)
• Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO)

• PrimEx Postdoc
• One full-time postdoc supported by COSM-NSU
  partnership and MIT.

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PrimEx Students Summer, 2003
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Future COSM-NSU Partnership Initiative
JLAB Expt. E-03-109 Spin Asymmetries on the
Nucleon Experiment SANE

• SANE Expt.
• Measure proton spin structure function (SSF)
  g2(x,Q2) and
• spin asymmetries A1(x,Q2) at 2.5 Q2 6.5
  GeV2 and Bjorken x
• (0.3 x 0.8).

• Physics Goals
• Study x and Q2 dependence of SSFs in poorly
  measured region.
• Twist-3 effects from moments of g2 and g1.
• Comparison of Lattice QCD predictions of
  twist-3 matrix elements.
• Exploration of high x region A1 approach to
  x 1.
• Test polarized local duality for final state
  mass W gt 1.4 GeV.

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SANE Schematic Layout

• SANE Method
• Measure inclusive spin asymmetries for two
  orientations of
• target spin relative to beam helicity.
• Detect electrons with large solid angle
  electron telescope BETA.

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Big Electron Telescope Array - BETA

• BETA Detector
• BigCal lead glass calorimeter
• main detector.
• Gas Cherenkov (N2)
• additional pion rejection.
• Tracking hodoscope
• - solid Cherenkov for tracking.

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NSU Personnel in SANE

• One full-time faculty member.
• One full-time research associate supported by
• COSM-NSU partnership (1/2)
• NSU School of Science and Technology (1/4)
• Jefferson Lab Hall C (1/4)
• One NSU undergraduate student.