MRI: Development of High Granularity Position Sensitive Single Photon Detector Systems

MRI：高粒度位置敏感单光子探测器系统的开发

• 批准号: 0320859
• 负责人: Marina Artuso
• 金额: $ 20.21万
• 依托单位: Syracuse 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: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0320859&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Development; Granularity; Position; Sensitive

This proposal from the Syracuse University group requests funds to develop instrumentation focusing on large area, high granularity, single photon detectors, active in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and their associated electronics and data acquisition system. Two solutions will be implemented based on two competing photon detectors. The primary application envisaged for this system is the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector (RICH), a crucial component of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory BTeV experiment enabling the extensive study of charm and beauty quarks, with particular emphasis on CP violation and rare decays. The BTeV RICH will be constructed mainly at Syracuse University. This far-reaching physics program is likely to provide crucial signatures for new physics, that is, physics beyond our current understanding, called the Standard Model. The rich phenomenology to be explored with BTeV makes it a unique educational environment for our graduate and undergraduate students. The combination of excellent physics analysis opportunities with novel detector development will empower Syracuse University to be one of the leading university in training the next generations of high-energy physicists. Interest in these instruments is growing in a variety of fields of experimental physics and medicine. Thus, a synergistic development of two educational modules to be included in several experimental physics course offerings and hands-on outreach activities periodically scheduled in the department is planned.

来自锡拉丘兹大学小组的这一提案要求提供资金，以开发专注于大面积、高粒度、单光子探测器的仪器，这些探测器在电磁波谱的可见光区域中起作用，以及它们的相关电子和数据采集系统。两种解决方案将基于两个竞争的光子探测器来实现。该系统的主要应用是环形成像切伦科夫探测器（Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector，RICH），这是费米国家加速器实验室BTeV实验的重要组成部分，可以广泛研究魅力和美夸克，特别强调CP破坏和罕见衰变。BTeV RICH将主要在锡拉丘兹大学建造。这个意义深远的物理学计划可能会为新物理学提供关键的签名，即超出我们目前理解的物理学，称为标准模型。BTeV探索的丰富现象学使其成为我们研究生和本科生独特的教育环境。优秀的物理分析机会与新型探测器的开发相结合，将使锡拉丘兹大学成为培养下一代高能物理学家的领先大学之一。 在实验物理和医学的各个领域，对这些仪器的兴趣正在增长。因此，计划协同开发两个教育模块，将其纳入几个实验物理课程和该系定期安排的实践推广活动。