CAREER: New Physics Searches in Top Pairs and Jets Channels, Silicon Pixel Operations at CMS and Particle Physics Outreach with Spark Chamber Stations

提案号：0748054机构：罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克nsf项目：物理？基本粒子加速用户主要研究者：Halkiadakis， evatie姓名：职业：在顶级对和射流通道的新物理搜索，CMS的硅像素操作和火花室站的粒子物理扩展本提案要求部分支持一个实验基本粒子物理研究项目，主要基于欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机（LHC）的CMS实验，以及一个涉及高中教师和大学预科女生的教育和扩展项目。在过去的几十年里，物理学家已经能够越来越详细地描述构成宇宙的基本粒子以及它们之间的相互作用。这一成功很大程度上要归功于费米实验室的Tevatron项目，D0和CDF做出了重大贡献。Halkiadakis教授一直是CDF实验物理分析的主要参与者，特别是在顶级物理方面，以及许多领导角色。现在，大型强子对撞机和CMS将在新的能量和光度制度下开始运行，这将为发现和测量带来更大的希望，从而改变我们对世界是如何构建的以及支配其运行的定律本质的看法。Halkiadakis教授现在正在过渡到CMS项目，在那里她将利用她在顶级分析方面的丰富经验，在CMS中研究新的物理搜索的顶级对产生。由于罗格斯团队对CMS像素探测器做出了重大贡献，并且探测器在识别b-夸克方面发挥了关键作用，Halkiadakis教授还承担了开发像素数据质量监测（DQM）系统主要部分的责任。此外，她计划扩大她的研究范围，将喷气机作为一个补充项目，用于研究轻子或缺动量的衰变特征。在更广泛的影响方面，她计划使用宇宙射线μ子将粒子物理学带给公众。目的是建立一个实验来检验爱因斯坦的理论。并证明我们周围存在高能粒子。这个项目将由当地的高中教师和来自罗格斯道格拉斯项目的大学预科女生组成。与PI一起，他们将建造粒子物理探测器来测量在不同高度观测到的宇宙射线μ子的数量，并研究时间膨胀的影响。实验的结果将会见分晓。在行动?通过网络在他们的学校展示，并在新泽西州的科学博物馆展出，比如在自由科学中心。

PROPOSAL NUMBER: 0748054INSTITUTION: Rutgers University New BrunswickNSF PROGRAM: PHY ? ELEMENTARY PARTICLE ACCEL USERPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Halkiadakis, EvaTITLE: CAREER: New Physics Searches in Top Pairs and Jets Channels, Silicon Pixel Operations at CMS and Particle Physics Outreach with Spark Chamber StationsThis proposal requests partial support for a program of research in experimental elementary particle physics based primarily on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and for an education and outreach program involving high school teachers and pre-college women students.For the past few decades, physicists have been able to describe with increasing detail the fundamental particles that make up the Universe and the interactions between them. Much of this success has been due to the Tevatron program at Fermilab with D0 and CDF making major contributions.. Professor Halkiadakis has been a major participant in the physics analysis for the CDF experiment, particularly in top physics, as well as in many leadership roles. Now the LHC and CMS will start operation in new regimes of energy and luminosity holding even greater promise for discoveries and measurements leading to revisions of our views on how the world is constructed and the nature of the laws that govern its operation. Professor Halkiadakis is now transitioning into the CMS program where she will parlay her wealth of experience in top analysis into a study of top pair production at CMS for new physics searches. With the Rutgers group making significant contributions to the CMS pixel detector and the pivotal role the detector plays in identifying b-quarks, Professor Halkiadakis also has assumed the responsibility for developing major portions of the pixel data quality monitoring (DQM) system. In addition, she plans to expand her searches to involve jets as a complimentary program to a study of decay signatures with leptons or missing momentum. On Broader Impacts, she plans to use cosmic ray muons to bring particle physics to the public. The objective is to set up an experiment to test Einstein?s special theory of relativity and to demonstrate that high energy particles surround us. This project will be assembled by local high school teachers and pre-college women students from the Rutgers Douglass Project. Together with the PI, they will build particle physics detectors to measure the number of cosmic ray muons observed at different altitudes and study the effect of time dilation. The results of the experiment will be seen ?in action? via web-based displays at their schools, and exhibited in science museums around the state of New Jersey, such as at the Liberty Science Center.