US-Pakistan Cooperative Research: Study of Charmed Baryon Production and Decays Using the BABAR Experiment at SLAC, Stanford University

0423002 Alam描述：该项目支持纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼物理系Mohammad Alam博士和巴基斯坦拉合尔旁遮普大学拉合尔高能物理中心物理系Fazal Aleem和Maqsood Ahmed博士的合作项目。 他们建议为CHEPL参与实验粒子物理学研究建立必要的基础设施。 他们计划建立一个联合博士学位。计划，使学生从CHEPL可以花前三年在他们的家机构和两年在奥尔巴尼两年完成他们的论文。 该中心的一名教师Maqsood Ahmed已经花了一年的时间进行培训，以构建数据分析和蒙特卡洛模拟所需的Beowulf级超级计算机。 另一位研究生花了一年多的时间攻读博士学位。论文研究，并已返回家乡机构完成论文。他们还计划启动一个粒子探测器的建造和测试项目。 PI计划促进一个培训计划，AHEPL的研究人员可以在CHEPL培训人员，使他们能够成为BaBar协作的成员，AHEPL已经是其中的一部分。 研究所计划在2005年举办一次研讨会和讲习班，向CHEPL的一批学生介绍BaBar实验、BaBar物理学和分析，并为美国研究生和本科生提供在巴基斯坦度过暑假的机会。阿拉姆博士是奥尔巴尼高能物理组的主任，该组有14名学生获得博士学位。在实验粒子物理学在他的监督下，和六个目前在他的监督下。 作为斯坦福大学直线加速器中心（SLAC）MARK II合作项目和康奈尔电子储存环（CESR）CLEO合作项目的成员，他在首次观测几种亚原子粒子的过程中发挥了主导作用。 Akhtar Mahmood教授完成了博士学位他在Alam教授的指导下从奥尔巴尼大学毕业，在导致上述发现的数据分析中发挥了重要作用，并被任命为奥尔巴尼大学的兼职教授。 巴基斯坦合作者Aleem博士也是一名正教授，并曾担任拉合尔的旁遮普大学高能物理中心主任。范围和更广泛的影响：该提案将对奥尔巴尼高能物理组产生重大影响，将从CHEPL选拔的优秀学生带到奥尔巴尼进行研究。 该小组的美国学生将有机会在巴基斯坦进行研究，并体验完全不同的学术和文化环境。 与BaBar合作的物理学项目涉及粲重子产生的研究，具有丰富的发现潜力。 该提案将对CHEPL的基础设施，教育和学生和科学家的培训产生重大影响。 从国际角度来看，该计划的广泛影响是重大的。 已故巴基斯坦物理学家Abdus Salam教授（1979年诺贝尔奖获得者）在旁遮普大学获得本科学位。 研究所计划向巴基斯坦科学技术部寻求资金，并与其他南亚和中东资助机构接触，以帮助支付粒子探测器的建造和测试费用。

0423002 AlamDescription: This project supports a cooperative project by the Dr. Mohammad Alam, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York and Drs. Fazal Aleem and Maqsood Ahmed, Physics Department, Center for High Energy Physics at Lahore, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. They propose to establish the infrastructure necessary for the CHEPL to participate in research in experimental particle physics. They plan to establish a joint Ph.D. program so that students from CHEPL can spend the first three years at their home institution and two years at Albany for two years to complete their theses. One of the faculty members from the center, Maqsood Ahmed has already spent a year training to build Beowulf Class supercomputers needed for data analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. Another graduate student spent more than a year working on his Ph.D. thesis research, and has returned to his home institution to complete his thesis. They also plan to start a program of particle detector construction and testing. The PIs plan to foster a training program, whereby researchers from AHEPL can train personnel at CHEPL so that they could become members of the BaBar Collaboration, of which the AHEPL is already a part. The PIs plan to hold a seminar and workshop in 2005 to educate a group of CHEPL students about the BaBar experiment, BaBar Physics and Analysis, and to offer the opportunity to American graduates and undergraduates to spend summers in Pakistan. Dr. Alam is the Director of the Albany High Energy Physics Group where fourteen students have received Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics under his supervision, and six more are currently under his supervision. As a member of the MARK II collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and CLEO collaboration at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), he has played a leading role in the first observation of several sub-atomic particles charmed baryons and mesons. Prof. Akhtar Mahmood completed his Ph.D. from University at Albany under the supervision of Prof. Alam and has played an important role in the analysis of data leading up to the above discoveries and has an appointment as Adjunct Professor at University at Albany. The Pakistani collaborator Dr. Aleem is also a full professor and has been the Director of the Center for High Energy Physics at Punjab University at Lahore. Scope and broader Impacts: The proposal will have a major impact on the Albany High Energy Physics group, bringing in top selected students from CHEPL for research at Albany. American students in the group will have the opportunity to pursue research in Pakistan and experience a completely different academic and cultural environment. The program of physics with BaBar involving the study of charmed baryon production is rich in discovery potential. The proposal will have a major impact on the infrastructure, education and training of students and scientists at CHEPL. The program's broader impact is significant from an international perspective. The late Pakistani physicist Prof. Abdus Salam (1979 Nobel Prize Laureate) obtained his undergraduate degree from Punjab University. The PIs plan to seek funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology in Pakistan and to approach other South Asian and Middle-Eastern funding agencies for assisting in the cost of the particle detector construction and testing.