Experimental Particle Physics Research at Hadron Colliders

本提案请求支持伊利诺斯大学芝加哥分校（UIC）正在进行的高能物理实验研究项目。小组的研究活动主要集中在费米实验室的D0实验和欧洲核子研究中心的CMS实验。在本提案所涵盖的期间，他们计划(1)继续他们在D0物理项目中从事顶夸克物理和希格斯搜索的活动，(2)致力于开发和领导D0 1级量热计触发器升级的安装，试运行和调试，为运行IIb做准备，(3)维护，操作和改进他们建造的2级量热计触发器，(4)监控，模拟和操作D0硅微带跟踪器。(5)增加他们在CMS硅外部跟踪器上的努力；(6)在CMS建立一个长期的物理项目。拟议活动的更广泛影响是多方面和多样化的。高能物理前沿实验的技术进步有助于所有科学和工程。构建和调试复杂的触发器和硅系统必须克服的挑战增强了相关工程领域的学科知识。UIC最成熟的外展活动，即QuarkNet计划，促进了高中教师和UIC小组成员之间的合作，从而加强了芝加哥地区高中的教与学。

This proposal requests support for an ongoing research program of experimental High Energy Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The research activities of the group are concentrated on the D0 experiment at Fermilab and the CMS experiment at CERN. During the period covered by this proposal, they plan to (1) continue their activities in the D0 physics program working on top-quark physics and Higgs searches, (2) work on the development and lead the installation, shakedown, and commissioning of the D0 Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade in preparation for Run IIb, (3) maintain, operate, and improve the Level-2 Calorimeter Trigger that they built, (4) monitor, simulate, and operate the D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker, (5) increase their effort in the CMS Silicon Outer Tracker, and (6) establish a long-term physics program at CMS. The broader impacts of the proposed activities are multiple and diverse. The technological advances of high-energy physics frontier experiments help all sciences and engineering. The challenges that must be overcome for building and commissioning complicated trigger and silicon systems enhance the disciplinary knowledge in the relevant engineering fields. The most mature outreach activity of the UIC group, namely the QuarkNet program, fosters collaboration between high school teachers and the UIC group members, thus strengthening teaching and learning in Chicago area high schools.