Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics Experiments

这是一笔赠款，用于支持一名教授和一名博士后研究员从事三项不同的活动。 第一个涉及瑞士欧洲核子研究中心的 SMC 实验，其中使用偏振 μ 子束研究中子和质子的自旋特性。 在另一项实验中，大体积探测器（LVD）正在意大利（Grand Sasso）的一个大型地下实验室中组装。 该实验的目的是探测来自太空的中微子，并寻找中微子特性变化（振荡）造成的影响。 在第三项努力中，研究人员计划与东北物理系的其他研究人员一起参与将在德克萨斯州 SSC 建造和运行的 SDC 探测器实验。

This is a grant to support a professor and a postdoctoral research associate in three separate activities. The primary one involves the SMC experiment at CERN in Switzerland in which the spin properties of the neutron and proton are studied using a beam of polarized muons. In another experiment, the Large Volume Detector (LVD) is being assembled in a large underground laboratory in Italy (Grand Sasso). This experiment is intended to detect neutrinos from space, and to search for effects due to changes (oscillations) in their identities. In the third effort, the investigator plans to join with other investigators from Northeastern physics department in the SDC detector experiment to be built and run at the SSC in Texas.