Experimental Particle Physics Research at Hadron Colliders

强子对撞机的实验粒子物理研究

• 批准号: 0354950
• 负责人: Nikos Varelas
• 金额: $ 90.11万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 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: 2004-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0354950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Particle; Physics; Research; Hadron

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.

该提案要求支持伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)正在进行的实验高能物理研究计划。该小组的研究活动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。在这项提议所涵盖的期间，他们计划(1)继续在D0物理计划中从事顶夸克物理和希格斯搜索方面的活动，(2)致力于开发和领导D0 Level-1量热仪触发器的开发和安装、调试和调试，为Run IIb做准备，(3)维护、操作和改进他们制造的二级热量计触发器，(4)监测、模拟和操作D0硅微带跟踪器，(5)增加他们在CMS硅外跟踪器的工作，以及(6)在CMS建立一个长期的物理计划。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帮助了所有的科学和工程。建造和调试复杂的触发器和硅系统必须克服的挑战提高了相关工程领域的学科知识。UIC小组最成熟的外联活动，即QuarkNet方案，促进了高中教师与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。