Proton-Antiproton and Alpha-Alpha Interactions at the CERN Laboratory (U.S.-Turkey Cooperative Research; Science in Developing Countries)

技术说明：这项美国-土耳其合作研究项目涉及来自加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和土耳其阿达纳库库罗瓦大学的物理学家，将启动一项新的全面的α - α相互作用数据分析。项目资金将使博士。库库罗娃大学的Nazife Ozdes和Ayse Kuzucu与加州大学洛杉矶分校的Peter Schlein博士和他的团队在欧洲核子研究中心（瑞士）的超级质子同步加速器上合作。此外，在博士之后。Ozdes和Kuzucu回到了他们的大学，Schlein团队的成员将拜访他们，以继续完整的物理分析。这项新的合作研究工作将建立在Schlein在欧洲核子研究中心的团队先前进行的实验的数据基础上。这些数据构成了离子碰撞中多λ系统衍射产生的第一个证据。因此，对α - α相互作用的更详细的了解将使研究小组能够推断出更大的离子束。这个项目很重要，因为离子束可以为束缚的多λ系统提供一种产生机制，从而避免了通过推测的夸克-胶子等离子体机制产生的不确定性。这个高能物理项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和土耳其的领先专家能够在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域结合互补的人才和集中研究资源。

Technical Narrative: This U.S.-Turkey collaborative research project involving physicists from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey will launch a new full- scale analysis of data on alpha-alpha interactions. Project funding will enable Drs. Nazife Ozdes and Ayse Kuzucu of Cukurova University to work with Dr. Peter Schlein and his team from UCLA at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN (Switzerland). Additionally, after Drs. Ozdes and Kuzucu return to their university, members of Schlein's team will visit them in order to continue the full physics analysis. This new collaborative research effort will build on data compiled from a previous experiment conducted by Schlein's team at CERN. These data constitute the first evidence for diffractive production of multi-Lambda systems in ion collisions. Consequently, a more detailed understanding of alpha- alpha interactions will permit the team to extrapolate to larger ion beams. This project is important because ion beams can provide a production mechanism for bound multi-Lambda systems, thereby, avoiding the uncertainties of production via the conjectured quark- gluon plasma mechanism. This project in high energy physics fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading experts in the United States and Turkey to combine complementary talents and pool research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.