Elementary Particle Physics with CMS and FOCUS

使用 CMS 和 FOCUS 进行基本粒子物理

• 批准号: 0600694
• 负责人: Paul Sheldon
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0600694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Elementary; Particle; Physics; CMS; FOCUS

The Vanderbilt High Energy Group has been involved with three experimental programs: at Fermilab, the study of production and decay of charm and beauty particles (FOCUS and BTeV experiments); at CERN, the study of physics at the energy frontier (the CMS experiment). With considerable experimental expertise developed by the group in the course of the FOCUS and BTeV efforts, for example in such areas as databases and development of fault tolerant electronic triggering, the group is now making significant contributions to CMS in the areas of charged particle tracking and trigger and data acquisition. The CMS experiment will come on line for data taking during the course of this award. In parallel, the group continues to analyze data from FOCUS, which has provided a prolific and significant body of knowledge of charm particles to the scientific community; including measurements of charm particle photoproduction, branching ratios for charm particle decays and charm particle lifetimes. In the area of broader impacts, the group has made significant contributions to Grid Computing and cyberinfrastructure - leading the Vanderbilt campus computing initiative ACCRE and through participation in the national virtual organization Open Science Grid, through research and training in physics and computer science for graduate and undergraduate students, and in education and outreach for high school teachers and students through QuarkNet.

范德比尔特高能小组参与了三个实验项目：在费米实验室，研究魅力粒子和美丽粒子的产生和衰变（FOCUS和BTeV实验）；在欧洲核子研究中心，对能量前沿的物理研究（CMS实验）。该小组在FOCUS和BTeV项目中积累了大量的实验专业知识，例如在数据库和容错电子触发开发等领域，该小组目前在带电粒子跟踪和触发以及数据采集领域为CMS做出了重大贡献。CMS实验将在本奖项颁发期间上线以获取数据。与此同时，该小组继续分析来自FOCUS的数据，该数据为科学界提供了丰富而重要的魅力粒子知识体系；包括迷人粒子光产生的测量，迷人粒子衰变的分支比和迷人粒子寿命。在更广泛的影响领域，该组织对网格计算和网络基础设施做出了重大贡献——领导范德比尔特大学校园计算倡议ACCRE，通过参与国家虚拟组织开放科学网格，通过对研究生和本科生的物理和计算机科学的研究和培训，以及通过QuarkNet对高中教师和学生的教育和推广。