Experimental High Energy Physics

实验高能物理

• 批准号: 0653592
• 负责人: Daniel Claes
• 金额: $ 57.3万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0653592&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Energy; Physics

Harron Colliders at Fermilab (The Tevatron) and CERN (The LHC) are expected to be productive tools to explore high mass scales (The Terascale) in the near future. This proposal requests continued support for the frontier collider-physics research program of the Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). The group has over 15 years experience each in the D0 Experiment at the Tevatron. Their work has focused on providing quality data to the experiment: meeting the Level-3 specifications for triggering with a full suite of physics object tools; monitoring data quality and, in particular, the changes introduced by new code releases; and a completing a major reevaluation of the normalization of D0's luminosity. The D0 experiment clearly remains a primary focus for the group, as transition to CMS at the LHC begins,.The Principal Investigators also lead CROP, the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project CROP is a statewide outreach effort to involve Nebraska high schools in the study of extended cosmic-ray air showers, using retired detectors from the Chicago Air Shower Array, as well as leading outreach for the Pierre Auger cosmic ray experiment.

费米实验室(Tevatron)和欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)(大型强子对撞机)的哈龙对撞机有望在不久的将来成为探索大质量尺度(Terascale)的生产性工具。这项提案要求继续支持内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校实验高能物理(HEP)小组的前沿对撞机物理研究计划。该团队每个人在Tevatron的D0实验中都有超过15年的经验。他们的工作集中在为实验提供高质量的数据：使用全套物理对象工具满足触发的级别3规范；监测数据质量，特别是新代码发布带来的变化；以及完成对D0的S光度归一化的重大重新评估。随着大型强子对撞机开始向CMS过渡，D0实验显然仍然是该小组的主要重点。首席研究人员还领导着CROP，宇宙线观测站项目CROP是一项全州范围的推广工作，目的是让内布拉斯加州的高中参与研究延长的宇宙线空气簇射，使用芝加哥空气簇射阵列的退役探测器，以及领导Pierre Auger宇宙线实验的推广。