A novel internship program in HEP
arxiv(2024)
摘要
The U.S.CMS collaboration has designed a novel internship program for
undergraduates to enhance the participation of students from under-represented
populations, including those at minority serving institutions, in High Energy
Physics (HEP). These students traditionally face several barriers including
lack of research infrastructure and opportunities, insufficient mentoring, lack
of support networks, and financial hardship, among many others, resulting in a
lack of participation in STEM fields. We had recently reported about a fully
virtual 10-week internship pilot program called "U.S.CMS - PURSUE (Program for
Undergraduate Research SUmmer Experience)" to address dismantling such
barriers. The 2023 iteration of this program builds on it by imparting not only
an in-person summer internship experience but extends it into the academic
semester as well. Students are selected predominantly from Minority Serving
Institutions with no research program in HEP from and under-represented groups
and, are given a structured hands-on research experience with an initial
two-week "bootcamp" on software training modules followed by an 8-week HEP
project targeting physics analysis, software, computing or instrumentation work
on the CMS Experiment. A subset of interns continue the experience into the
academic semester, enabling further an in-depth knowledge of the field and a
motivation to persist in STEM areas. In this paper, we describe our recent
experience with this upgraded internship program. The paper is dedicated to the
memory of Prof. Meenakshi Narain (Brown University) who was the driving force
behind this internship program and U.S CMS diversity, equity and inclusion
efforts.
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