Studies in Elementary Particles

这个奖项将提供支持，以一组从约翰 霍普金斯大学的一个研究项目， 基本粒子 这项研究将在 费米实验室的Tevatron质子反质子对撞机。 的 该小组的主要责任是就 使用硅条升级民防部队的顶点探测器， 高精度的粒子跟踪。 我们的目标是 能够标记B介子并研究它们的性质， 寻找顶夸克的存在 使用 硅条探测器也将作为测试其 未来在甚高能高光度对撞机上的应用 就像卫星控制中心一样

This award will provide support to a group from Johns Hopkins University for a research program on the physics of elementary particles. The research will be conducted at the Tevatron proton antiproton collider at Fermilab, CDF. The primary responsibility of the group will be to work on the upgrade of the vertex detector at CDF using silicon strips for high precision tracking of the particles. The aim is to be able to tag B mesons and study their properties and to pursue the search for the existence of the top quark. The use of silicon strip detectors will also serve as test for their future use at very high energy and high luminosity colliders like the SSC.