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

技术描述：这个美国和土耳其的合作研究项目涉及来自加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)和阿达纳的库库罗娃大学的物理学家，土耳其将对阿尔法-阿尔法相互作用的数据进行新的全面分析。项目资金将使Cukurova大学的Nazife Ozdes博士和Ayse Kuzucu博士能够与加州大学洛杉矶分校的Peter Schlein博士和他的团队在CERN(瑞士)的超级质子同步加速器工作。此外，在Ozdes博士和Kuzucu博士返回他们的大学后，Schlein团队的成员将拜访他们，以便继续进行全面的物理分析。这项新的合作研究工作将建立在欧洲核子研究中心Schlein团队之前进行的一项实验的数据基础上。这些数据构成了离子碰撞中多波长系统产生衍射的第一个证据。因此，对阿尔法-阿尔法相互作用的更详细了解将使该团队能够外推到更大的离子束。这个项目很重要，因为离子束可以为束缚的多波长系统提供一个产生机制，从而避免通过猜想的夸克-胶子等离子体机制产生的不确定性。这个高能物理项目通过使美国和土耳其的顶尖专家能够将互补的人才结合在一起，并在相互感兴趣和能力很强的领域汇集研究资源，实现了促进科学知识的计划目标。

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.