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

0730173BeanThis奖是为了资助提交给2007年OISE国际研究和教育合作伙伴关系（PIRE）竞争的提案。 在美国，堪萨斯大学、伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校、内布拉斯加大学、波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校与瑞士苏黎世的保罗·谢勒研究所和Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule（ETH）合作。 智力优势。 美国的参与者建议建立在他们现有的合作经验，在美国的合作负责CMS跟踪探测器的CMS实验在欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机。 他们特别感兴趣的是帮助开发一个跟踪系统的“超级大型强子对撞机”，一个程序的高强度运行的加速器与其探测器。 瑞士合作者在设计和建造现有紧凑型μ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。 的SLHC将允许几乎竞争性描绘的性质的电2weak对称性破缺的大多数拟议的模型。 在极高的事件率和SLHC碰撞区域的辐射环境中，稳健和有效的带电粒子跟踪对于这一物理学至关重要。 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，建立在完善的KU出国留学计划的基础上。两个参与的美国机构来自EPSCoR州，第三个是波多黎各的主要少数民族机构，所有这些机构都将在这项活动中涉及学生的重要多样性。 该项目有可能成为一种新的国际化教育模式的典范，这无疑将使美国理科学生受益。 该项目将有助于培养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。 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相比，这些交流将在大学而不是在实验室与外国合作者进行。

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.