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

0423002 AlamDescription：该项目支持由纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校物理系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博士开展的一个合作项目。他们建议建立CHEPL参与实验粒子物理研究所需的基础设施。他们计划建立一个联合博士项目，这样CHEPL的学生就可以在自己的母校度过头三年，在奥尔巴尼度过两年，为期两年来完成他们的论文。该中心的教职员工之一马克苏德·艾哈迈德已经花了一年的时间培训，以建造数据分析和蒙特卡洛模拟所需的贝奥武夫级超级计算机。另一名研究生花了一年多的时间进行博士论文研究，并已返回家乡完成论文。他们还计划启动粒子探测器的建造和测试计划。PIS计划促进一个培训计划，AHEPL的研究人员可以在CHEPL培训人员，这样他们就可以成为BABAR合作的成员，AHEPL已经是该合作的一部分。PIS计划在2005年举办一次研讨会和工作坊，教育CHEPL的一群学生关于巴布尔实验、巴布尔物理和分析，并为美国毕业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小组的主任，该小组有14名学生在他的指导下获得了实验粒子物理博士学位，目前还有6名学生在他的指导下获得博士学位。作为斯坦福直线加速器中心(SLAC)的Mark II协作和康奈尔电子存储环(CESR)的CLEO协作的成员，他在首次观测到几个迷人的重子和介子的亚原子粒子方面发挥了主导作用。阿赫塔尔·马哈茂德教授在阿拉姆教授的指导下完成了奥尔巴尼大学的博士学位，并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。巴基斯坦合作者阿利姆博士也是一名全职教授，曾任拉合尔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小组产生重大影响，将CHEPL的顶尖学生引入奥尔巴尼进行研究。小组中的美国学生将有机会在巴基斯坦进行研究，体验完全不同的学术和文化环境。与巴布尔一起研究迷人的重子产生的物理学计划具有丰富的发现潜力。该提案将对CHEPL学生和科学家的基础设施、教育和培训产生重大影响。从国际角度来看，该计划的更广泛影响是重大的。已故巴基斯坦物理学家阿卜杜勒·萨拉姆教授(1979年诺贝尔奖获得者)在旁遮普大学获得学士学位。PIS计划向巴基斯坦科技部寻求资金，并与其他南亚和中东资助机构接洽，以帮助支付颗粒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.