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

这个奖项是为了资助提交给2007年OISE国际研究和教育伙伴关系(PERR)竞赛的一份提案。它涉及美国方面堪萨斯大学、伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校、内布拉斯加大学和波多黎各大学与瑞士苏黎世的保罗·谢勒研究所和Eidgenessiche Technische Hochschule(ETH)的合作。智力上的功绩。美国与会者提议在他们在负责CERN LHC对撞机CMS实验的CMS跟踪探测器的美国合作中建立现有的合作经验。他们对帮助开发“超大型强子对撞机”的跟踪系统特别感兴趣，这是一种高强度运行加速器及其探测器的计划。瑞士合作者在设计和建造现有紧凑型Muon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。SLHC将允许几乎竞争地描绘大多数所提出的自然界中的弱对称破缺模型的性质。在SLHC碰撞区域极高的事故率和辐射环境中，稳健而有效的带电粒子跟踪将是这一物理的关键。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，建立在久负盛名的KU留学计划的基础上。参与活动的美国院校中有两所来自EPSCoR州，第三所是波多黎各的一所主要是少数族裔的院校，所有这些机构都将在这项活动中吸收重要的多样化学生。该项目有可能成为一种新的国际化教育模式的典范，这无疑将使美国的理科学生受益。该项目将促进全球参与和国际培训的劳动力队伍，增加少数群体对科学和工程的参与，并在参与者和他们在外国机构的同行之间建立持久的联系。让本科生参与的能力是创新的，因为与大多数高能物理合作不同，这些交流将在大学里与外国合作者进行，而不是在实验室。

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.