Searches for New Phenomena with High Energy Particle Colliders

用高能粒子对撞机寻找新现象

• 批准号: 0243692
• 负责人: Gerald Blazey
• 金额: $ 63.9万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243692&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Searches; New; Phenomena; Energy; Particle

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.

这项提案要求为北伊利诺伊大学(NIU)的一个小组提供资金，以利用高能粒子对撞机开展一项研究和教育计划，以探索新的现象。他们的两项主要活动将集中在费米实验室Tevatron的D0实验和线性对撞机探测器的热量测量和Muon跟踪上。D0实验的目标是研究顶夸克和电弱玻色子，寻找超对称粒子和夸克合成等新现象，并研究量子色动力学。除了对新物理学的探索作出贡献外，国家科学研究所小组还将领导有关跟踪触发器的调试工作，校准Muon闪烁计数器，以及开展Muon触发器的第二个硬件阶段以及部分Muon软件分析代码和粒子识别工作。他们还将协调D0的tau和喷流识别工作组。NIU小组积极参与线性对撞机的研发，致力于数字强子量热计原型、模拟和能量流算法以及Muon跟踪探测器设计研究。该计划还将对从K-12到研究生院的伊利诺伊州北部的教育产生广泛影响。该组织为当地中小学和社区中心开展了一项外展计划。这是为了增加附近地区的科学知识，并使公民熟悉高能物理和费米实验室。