CAREER: Heavy Flavor Physics with the CDF Detector and Saturday Physics Honors Statewide

职业生涯：使用 CDF 探测器进行重味物理学和全州范围内的周六物理学荣誉

• 批准号: 0349179
• 负责人: Kevin Pitts
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0349179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Heavy; Flavor; Physics; CDF

This CAREER proposal is a request for funding to work on the CDF Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron where the two heaviest quarks, the bottom quark and top quark, were discovered. The Principal Investigator proposes a program that will produce new measurements of the properties of these heavy quarks. Such measurements will undoubtedly lead to an improved understanding of nature at its most fundamental level. Although the physics program emphasizes precision measurements of the heavy quarks, the work performed as part of this project will be crucial to many aspects of the CDF physics program, including the search for the Higgs boson and new physics through Supersymmetry. Specifically, the PI proposes to construct an upgrade to the CDF trigger system, referred to as the eXtremely Fast Tracker (XFT), which will improve the experiment's ability to select which events to keep for subsequent analysis by efficiently finding the charged tracks produced in every proton-antiproton interaction. Charged track information is crucial to the CDF physics program and hundreds of different physics analyses rely heavily upon the very efficient operation of the XFT system. The PI proposes to expand the existing physics outreach program at the University of Illinois, known as the Saturday Physics Honors Program. This program provides physics presentations for the public during selected Saturdays in the fall. The production of DVD copies of the lectures, and the distribution to high school teachers, will provide an opportunity for students across the state to view and learn about cutting edge research and will permit a direct connection between research physicists and high school science teachers.

这个CAREER提案是一个资金申请，用于在费米实验室Tevatron的CDF探测器上工作，在那里发现了两个最重的夸克，底夸克和顶夸克。 首席研究员提出了一个计划，将产生新的测量这些重夸克的属性。这种测量无疑将导致在最基本的层面上更好地了解自然。虽然物理计划强调重夸克的精确测量，但作为该项目的一部分所做的工作对CDF物理计划的许多方面都至关重要，包括通过超对称寻找希格斯玻色子和新物理。 具体来说，PI建议对CDF触发系统进行升级，称为eXtremely Fast Tracker（XFT），这将通过有效地找到每个质子-反质子相互作用中产生的带电轨道来提高实验选择保留哪些事件以进行后续分析的能力。带电径迹信息对CDF物理程序至关重要，数百种不同的物理分析在很大程度上依赖于XFT系统的高效运行。PI建议扩大伊利诺伊大学现有的物理学外展计划，即星期六物理学荣誉计划。该计划在秋季选定的星期六为公众提供物理演示。讲座的DVD拷贝的生产，并分发给高中教师，将提供一个机会，让学生在全州查看和了解前沿研究，并将允许研究物理学家和高中科学教师之间的直接连接。