Searches for New Phenomena with High Energy Particle Colliders

该提案要求为北方伊利诺伊大学（NIU）的一个小组提供资金，以利用高能粒子对撞机进行研究和教育计划，以寻找新的现象。 他们的两个主要活动将集中在费米实验室Tevatron的D 0实验和线性对撞机检测器量热法和μ子跟踪。D 0实验的目标是研究顶夸克和电弱玻色子，寻找新的现象，如超对称粒子和夸克复合，并研究量子色动力学。NIU小组除了为寻找新的物理学做出贡献外，还将领导调试跟踪触发器，校准μ子闪烁计数器，并致力于μ子触发器的第二个硬件阶段以及部分μ子软件分析代码和粒子识别。他们还将协调D 0的tau和喷流识别工作组。NIU小组积极参与线性对撞机研发，致力于数字强子量能器原型，模拟和能量流算法以及μ子跟踪探测器设计研究。该计划还将对北方伊利诺伊州从K-12到研究生院的教育产生广泛影响。该组织为当地的小学、中学和社区中心开展了一个外展计划。其目的是增加邻近地区的科学知识，并使公民熟悉高能物理和费米实验室。

This proposal requests funds for a group at Northern Illinois University (NIU) to pursue a research and education program with high-energy particle colliders to search for new phenomena. Their two main activities will be centered on the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron and on Linear Collider Detector calorimetry and muon tracking. The goals of the D0 experiment are to study the top quark and electroweak bosons, to search for new phenomena such as supersymmetric particles and quark compositeness and to study Quantum Chromodynamics. The NIU group, in addition to contributing to the searches for new physics, will lead the efforts on commissioning the tracking trigger, on calibrating the muon scintillation counters and working on the second hardware stage of the muon trigger and parts of the muon software analysis code and particle identification. They will also coordinate the tau and jet identification working groups in D0.The NIU group is active in linear collider R&D, working on a digital hadron calorimeter prototype, on simulations and energy flow algorithms and on muon tracking detector design studies.The program will also have a broad impact on education in northern Illinois from K-12 through graduate school. The group operates an outreach program for local elementary and secondary schools and community centers. This is designed to increase scientific knowledge in the immediate area and to familiarize citizens with high-energy physics and with Fermilab.