PIRE: Collaborative research with the Paul Scherrer Institute and Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule on Advanced Pixel Silicon Detectors for the CMS detector

该奖项将资助提交2007年OISE国际研究与教育合作伙伴（PIRE）竞赛的提案。它涉及美国方面的合作，包括堪萨斯大学、伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校、内布拉斯加州大学和波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校，以及瑞士苏黎世的保罗·舍勒研究所和ETH。知识价值。美国参与者建议在他们现有的合作经验的基础上，在美国合作中负责CERN大型强子对撞机上CMS实验的CMS跟踪探测器。他们特别感兴趣的是帮助开发“超级大型强子对撞机”的跟踪系统，这是一个高强度运行加速器及其探测器的项目。瑞士合作者在设计和建造现有的紧凑介子螺线管（CMS）像素探测器实验的许多关键部件方面发挥了主导作用。大型强子对撞机将允许对自然界中大多数提出的电弱对称性破缺模型的性质进行几乎完全相同的描述。在超高速强子对撞机碰撞区域的高事件率和辐射环境中，稳健和高效的带电粒子跟踪将是这一物理学的关键。更广泛的影响。该提案包括为美国研究生和本科生提供广泛的国际培训机会，以堪萨斯大学完善的海外留学项目为基础。参与的美国机构中有两所来自EPSCoR州，第三所主要是波多黎各的少数族裔机构，所有这些机构都将在这项活动中涉及重要的学生多样性。这个项目有可能成为一种新的国际化教育模式的典范，这无疑将使美国理科学生受益。该项目将促进全球参与和国际培训的劳动力，增加少数民族对科学和工程的参与，并在参与者与外国机构的同行之间建立持久的联系。本科生参与的能力是创新的，因为与大多数高能物理合作相比，这些交流将在大学里与外国合作者进行，而不是在实验室里。

0730173BeanThis award is to fund a proposal submitted to the 2007 OISE Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) competition. It involves a collaboration on the US side between the University of Kansas, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez with the Paul Scherrer Institute and Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Intellectual Merit. The US participants propose to build on their existing collaborative experience in the US collaboration responsible for the CMS tracking detector for the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC collider. They are particularly interested in helping to develop a tracking system for the "super LHC," a program of high intensity running of the accelerator with its detectors. The Swiss collaborators have played the lead role in designing and building many key components of the existing Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) pixel detector experiment. The SLHC will permit nearly compete delineation of the properties of most of the proposed models of electro2weak symmetry breaking in nature. Robust and efficient charged particle tracking in the extraordinarily high event rate and radiation environment of the SLHC collision region will be essential for this physics.Broader Impacts. The proposal includes extensive international training opportunities for the US graduate and undergraduate students, built on the well-established KU study abroad program. Two of the participating US institutions are from EPSCoR states and a third is a primarily minority institution in Puerto Rico, all of which will involve an important diversity of students in this activity. This project has the potential to be a model for a new mode of internationalized education that would undoubtedly benefit US science students. The project will contribute to a globally engaged and internationally trained workforce, increase minority participation in science and engineering, and develop lasting connections between the participants and their counterparts at foreign institutions. The ability to involve undergraduates is innovative, because in contrast to most high energy physics collaborations, these exchanges will occur with foreign collaborators at the universities, rather than in the laboratory.