LHC Experimental Experience at CERN

欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机（LHC）是世界？的能量前沿加速器，以及有史以来建造的最大的探测器，将允许探索高能物理学中的开创性问题。这项提议将为参与LHC ATLAS实验的早期职业研究生提供一个独特的机会，让他们参与CERN的数据采集工作。每年约有10名高素质的学生（三年中每年约有10名）将被选中获得旅行奖励，使他们有机会在LHC的早期运行期间出席CERN，预计将于2008年秋季开始运营。对于研究生的完整教育是必要的，他们能够在实验的操作中获得实践经验，这些享有盛誉的旅行奖励将确保来自NSF核心计划资助机构的最优秀的学生能够获得一生一次的经验。关于更广泛的影响，这些奖项的获得者还将进一步实现以下目标：承认和吸引代表性不足的群体参与科学，促进国际交流，并将尖端科学研究的兴奋带给年轻一代，因为他们将他们的经验带回校园，与REU计划中的本科生以及QuarkNet和其他计划中的高中生和教师互动。

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world?s energy frontier accelerator and together with the associated largest detectors ever constructed, will allow for the probing of the seminal questions in high energy physics. This proposal will provide a unique opportunity for early career graduate students involved in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC to be involved at CERN for the start of data taking. About ten high qualified students per year (a new set of approximately ten for each of three years) will be selected to receive travel awards affording them the opportunity to be present at CERN during the early running of the LHC, which is expected to start operations in the Fall of 2008. It is necessary for a complete education for graduate students that they be able to have hands-on experience in the operation of the experiment, and these prestigious travel awards will assure that the very best students from NSF core program funded institutions are able to have this once in a lifetime experience.With regard to broader impact, the recipients of these awards will also further the goals of recognizing and attracting underrepresented groups to the sciences, fostering international exchange, and bringing the excitement of cutting edge scientific research to a younger generation as they bring back their experiences to their campuses, interact with undergraduates in REU programs and with high school students and teachers in QuarkNet and other programs.