NuPUMAS Collaboration

The University of Houston (UH) will partner with universities from the Texas Physics Consortium (TPC) to participate in this collaborative program. The strong relationships between TPC member institution’s professors and students will allow NuPUMAS to recruit from a large pool of students from a variety of backgrounds. The TPC has 7 member institutions jointly awarding a Physics Bachelor’s degree and 1 other institution sharing courses but awarding its own Physics degree. The institutions of the TPC serve a large percentage of underrepresented groups.
The NuPUMAS program is modeled off of the successful Nuclear Science in Texas to Enhance and Advance Minorities (NuSTEAM), Each year nine students joined the NuSTEAM program where they completed a six-week intensive training course at UH followed by a two-week experience at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL). Members of NuSTEAM from UH also work in participation with other Participating Institutions of Texas having significant minorities.  

None of the TPC member institutions have physics graduate programs. However, the participating faculty and TAMUCC, TAMUK, and TSU all have expensive undergraduate research programs that include relevant topics for students interested in particle physics. Thus, these institutions will provide minority rising senior undergraduate students with the program.

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UH and TPC members Faculty Profile

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UH Physics

The University of Houston Particle Physics research groups will provide the core facilities for the summer program in this proposal. UH has well-established experimental and theoretical Ph.D. programs in Particle Physics. The experimental group (Profs. Koerner, Renshaw, and Cherdack) is DOE-HEP funded, and all three professors will participate in this program. In addition to their expertise in neutrino physics, Prof. Renshaw also has significant experience in dark matter detection and liquid nobel element detector design. 

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TAMUCC Physics

Szczerbinska’s research is in the area of theoretical neutrino physics, focusing on neutrino cross-sections as well as geoneutrinos. Szczerbinska is a member of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Collaboration and serves on the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) Science Program Advisory Committee and SURF Foundation Board.
She also participates in multiple outreach activities to the local community, such as public lectures, middle and high school visits, science fairs, and festivals.

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TAMUK Physics

Dr. Albataineh at TAMUK focused on spin physics, in particular, the Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry for Single Muons using the muon arms.
He joined the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) subatomic group, and worked on building pixel planes for the inclusive Forward Vertex Tracker (iFVTX).
His current research thrust centers around the study of Deep Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS).In recent years, Albataineh developed an interest in new research areas such as Quantum Computation, Machine Learning, and Smart Grids.

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TSU Physics

Daniel Marble is Texas A&M Regents Professor of Physics. His research interests include accelerator technology, nuclear instrumentation, industrial and environmental radioactivity, ion-solid interactions, basic nuclear physics, physics of sports, and physics education research. T.
Over the years, Dr. Marble has mentored more than 50 research assistants including 37 Tarleton physics majors on a range of research projects including measuring non-elastic scattering cross sections and the development of an improved nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) system.

Funding

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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