CAREER: Detector Development for High Energy Astroparticle Physics

该职业建议要求支持天体粒子物理学的研究和教育，将开发宇宙射线和中微子探测器的低功率电子设备的计划与高中教师和学生以及大学研究生和本科生的教育活动相结合。该提案概述了一个项目，旨在开发便携式、低功耗的空气荧光探测器电子设备，这种设备可以在犹他州沙漠或天基探测器等环境中独立运行。智能触发器将使用低功率空气荧光相机来选择潜在的超高能量宇宙射线事件，然后才会激活耗能电子设备。计划包括在犹他州沙漠的偏远地区使用HiRes 2探测器进行测试。在该提案的推广工作中，该计划将涉及高中教师和大学本科生建造闪烁计数器，以探测高能宇宙射线。然后，这些计数器将被转移到犹他州和新墨西哥州的高中，向高中生介绍天体粒子物理学的概念和探测器技术。高中项目将重点放在这些州的印第安人保留地的学校。

This CAREER proposal requests support for research and education in astroparticle physics, combining a program to develop low-power electronics for cosmic ray and neutrino detectors with an educational activity for high school teachers and students as well as university graduate and undergraduate students.The proposal outlines a program designed to develop portable, low-power consuming electronics for air fluorescence detectors which could function in self-contained units in environments such as the Utah desert or in space-based detectors. An intelligent trigger would be used to select potential ultra-high energy cosmic ray events using a low-power air fluorescence camera and only then would power-consuming electronics be activated. Plans include tests using the HiRes 2 detector in a remote part of the Utah desert.In the outreach effort of the proposal, the plan would involve high school teachers and university undergraduates building scintillation counters to detect high energy cosmic rays. These counters would then be moved to high schools in Utah and New Mexico to introduce high school students to the concepts and detector techniques of astroparticle physics. The high school program would focus on schools in Native American reservations in these states.