Research in Collider Physics

对撞机物理研究

• 批准号: 0701621
• 负责人: Mitchell Wayne
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 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: 2007-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0701621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Collider; Physics

This University research team is focused on the highest energies produced at accelerators. The most powerful accelerator in existence today is the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago. The Tevatron is currently exploring the lower reaches of the Terascale and may make important new discoveries regarding the Higgs boson and the possible existence of new particles predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model before it is scheduled to be shut down by the end of the decade. However, the next major set of discoveries is likely to come from a very exciting set of experiments at a new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2007. This machine will enable physicists to explore energy regions inaccessible to Fermilab's Tevatron. The LHC is a project of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), an international laboratory established in 1954 as a joint venture of 12 European countries; CERN currently has 20 member states, all from Europe. The LHC will make CERN the most important center in the world for particle physics over the next decade. The United States has participated both in building the accelerator and in the large collaborations that are building the detectors. U.S. participation, including Notre Dame has been an important component in realizing this tremendous scientific opportunity. Notre Dame is a leader in the national education/outreach project called Quarknet, whose purpose is to involve high-school teachers and their students in state-of-the-art research that seeks to resolve some of the mysteries about the structure of matter and the fundamental forces of nature. QuarkNet provides an opportunity for high school science teachers to participate in frontier physics research. Teachers will be integrated into a research group in elementary particle physics at Notre=Dame and other institutions. QuarkNet is a nationwide network that also provides opportunities for participating science teachers to exchange knowledge and experience with their peers.

这所大学的研究团队专注于加速器产生的最高能量。目前存在的最强大的加速器是位于芝加哥郊外费米国家加速器实验室的Tevatron。Tevatron目前正在探索Terascale的下游，可能会有关于希格斯玻色子的重要新发现，以及标准模型的一些扩展中预测的新粒子的可能存在，直到它计划在本十年结束之前关闭。然而，下一个重大发现很可能来自瑞士日内瓦的大型强子对撞机(LHC)的一系列非常令人兴奋的实验，该加速器计划于2007年开始运行。这台机器将使物理学家能够探索费米实验室的Tevatron无法到达的能量区域。大型强子对撞机是欧洲核研究中心(CERN)的一个项目，CERN是一个国际实验室，成立于1954年，是12个欧洲国家的合资企业；CERN目前有20个成员国，全部来自欧洲。大型强子对撞机将使欧洲核子研究中心在未来十年成为世界上最重要的粒子物理中心。美国既参与了加速器的建造，也参与了建造探测器的大规模合作。美国的参与，包括巴黎圣母院，一直是实现这一巨大科学机会的重要组成部分。巴黎圣母院是名为Quarknet的国家教育/推广项目的领导者，该项目的目的是让高中教师和他们的学生参与最先进的研究，寻求解开关于物质结构和自然基本力量的一些谜团。QuarkNet为高中科学教师提供了参与前沿物理研究的机会。圣母大学和其他机构的教师将被整合到一个基本粒子物理研究小组。QuarkNet是一个全国性的网络，也为参与的科学教师提供与同行交流知识和经验的机会。