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

建议书编号：0748054申请：罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克NSF项目：PHY？基本粒子加速研究员：Halkiadakis，EvaTITLE：Career：Top Pair和Jets通道中的新物理搜索，CMS的硅像素操作和与火花室站的粒子物理扩展这项提案要求部分支持主要基于CERN大型强子对撞机(LHC)的CMS实验的实验基本粒子物理研究计划，以及涉及高中教师和大学预科女学生的教育和推广计划。在过去的几十年里，物理学家已经能够越来越详细地描述组成宇宙的基本粒子以及它们之间的相互作用。这一成功在很大程度上要归功于费米实验室的Tevatron计划，D0和CDF做出了重大贡献。Halkiadakis教授一直是CDF实验的物理分析的主要参与者，特别是在顶级物理学方面，以及担任过许多领导职务。现在，大型强子对撞机和CMS将开始在新的能量和光度制度下运行，在发现和测量方面拥有更大的希望，这将导致我们对世界是如何构成的，以及管理其运行的定律的性质的看法的修订。Halkiadakis教授现在正在过渡到CMS项目，在那里她将利用她在顶层分析方面的丰富经验，在CMS研究顶端对的产生，以进行新的物理搜索。由于罗格斯小组对CMS像素探测器做出了重大贡献，以及探测器在识别b夸克方面发挥的关键作用，Halkiadakis教授还承担了开发像素数据质量监测(DQM)系统的主要部分的责任。此外，她计划扩大搜索范围，将喷气式飞机作为一个免费项目，用于研究带有轻子或动量缺失的衰变信号。在更广泛的影响方面，她计划使用宇宙线µ子将粒子物理学带给公众。其目的是建立一个实验来检验爱因斯坦-S狭义相对论，并证明高能粒子围绕着我们。这个项目将由当地的高中教师和罗格斯·道格拉斯项目的大学预科女学生组成。他们将与PI一起建造粒子物理探测器，以测量在不同高度观察到的宇宙射线µ子的数量，并研究时间膨胀的影响。实验的结果将在行动中见分晓？通过学校的网络展示，并在新泽西州各地的科学博物馆展出，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.