University Consortium for a Linear Collider

直线对撞机大学联盟

• 批准号: 0303702
• 负责人: Maury Tigner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0303702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; Consortium; Linear; Collider

This proposal requests support from nineteen U.S. university groups that have banded together to form the University Consortium for Linear Collider (UCLC) R&D. This collaborative effort responds directly to the recent recommendations of the U.S. High Energy Physics Advisory Panel that a high-energy electron-positron linear collider should be the highest priority in the U.S. program in elementary particle physics. The work proposed here comprises 27 specific projects, spanning a broad range of issues in both accelerator and detector R&D for a linear collider. Twelve of the projects pursue important issues in accelerator physics and technology and the other fifteen projects are directed at linear collider detector R&D.A number of broader impacts are to be expected from this proposal. The accelerator physics R&D will push the state of the art in many areas (such as diagnostics) that have applications across the whole spectrum of accelerators. The detector R&D is similarly often of a generic nature, and complements well the detector development done for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. This proposal will also provide significant benefits in the training of accelerator physicists. By supporting accelerator physics at universities, this proposal will provide training opportunities that can begin to address the current national shortage of accelerator physicists. Finally, the collaborating groups that form the UCLC have a strong history of outreach to undergraduates and K-12 students and teachers. The work supported by this proposal will be integrated into these outreach efforts. The dissemination of the concepts explored by basic research in high-energy physics to students in their developing years will provide for an increased understanding of the field by the general public, and will foster the public's interest in science in general.

该提案请求 19 个美国大学团体的支持，这些大学团体联合起来组建了线性对撞机 (UCLC) 研发大学联盟。这项合作工作直接响应了美国高能物理顾问小组最近的建议，即高能正负电子线性对撞机应成为美国基本粒子物理项目的最高优先事项。 这里提出的工作包括 27 个具体项目，涵盖线性对撞机加速器和探测器研发方面的广泛问题。其中 12 个项目致力于加速器物理和技术方面的重要问题，另外 15 个项目则针对线性对撞机探测器的研发。预计该提案将产生许多更广泛的影响。加速器物理研发将推动许多领域（例如诊断）的最先进技术，这些领域在整个加速器领域都有应用。探测器的研发通常具有通用性，并且很好地补充了瑞士日内瓦欧洲核子研究组织大型强子对撞机的探测器开发。 该提案还将为加速器物理学家的培训提供显着的好处。通过支持大学的加速器物理学，该提案将提供培训机会，可以开始解决目前全国加速器物理学家短缺的问题。 最后，组成 UCLC 的合作小组在向本科生和 K-12 学生和教师进行推广方面有着悠久的历史。该提案支持的工作将纳入这些外展工作中。向处于成长阶段的学生传播高能物理基础研究探索的概念，将加深公众对该领域的了解，并培养公众对科学的兴趣。