CAREER:Research in Particle Physics with CMS

职业：利用 CMS 进行粒子物理研究

• 批准号: 0846388
• 负责人: Anders Ryd
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0846388&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Research; Particle; Physics; CMS

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This CAREER proposal describes a research program that will explore the opportunities for new discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) at CERN using the Compact Muon Solenoid(CMS) detector. With pp collisions at 14 TeV, the LHC is expected to open a vast new window on elementary particle physics phenomena. The intellectual merit of this work includes the exploration of the Higgs particle or of other new particles that could appear in extensions of the Standard Model, as well as the understanding of the pixel detector. The research program presented here is a three-pronged plan to explore beyond-the-Standard-Model physics by studying the light Higgs particle through tau lepton channels, to participate in the commissioning, calibration, and operation of the CMS pixel detector, and to develop upgrade strategies for CMS tracking. Discovery of the Higgs boson and the subsequent exploration of its properties are key goals of the CMS experiment. This is experimentally challenging and requires a detailed understanding of the detector performance, particularly of the pixel vertex detector. The broader impact of this proposal includes bringing the excitement and challenges of experimental particle physics to faculty and students at local community colleges. A pilot program with Cornell students analyzing CLEO data as part of an undergraduate course in particle physics has been very successful. The program described here is truly transformational. The Principle Investigator further develops these tools and makes them available to a broader community of small local 2-year community colleges, thereby providing suitable training for both the teaching faculty and the students involved, so they can participate in actual data analysis.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该CAREER提案描述了一项研究计划，该计划将探索在欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机（LHC）上使用紧凑型μ子螺线管（CMS）探测器进行新发现的机会。在14 TeV的pp碰撞下，LHC有望为基本粒子物理现象打开一扇巨大的新窗口。这项工作的智力价值包括对希格斯粒子或其他可能出现在标准模型扩展中的新粒子的探索，以及对像素探测器的理解。这里提出的研究计划是一个三管齐下的计划，通过研究轻希格斯粒子通过τ轻子通道探索超越标准模型物理，参与CMS像素探测器的调试，校准和操作，并制定CMS跟踪的升级策略。希格斯玻色子的发现和随后对其性质的探索是CMS实验的关键目标。这在实验上是具有挑战性的，并且需要对检测器性能的详细理解，特别是像素顶点检测器。这一提议的更广泛影响包括为当地社区学院的教师和学生带来实验粒子物理学的兴奋和挑战。作为粒子物理本科课程的一部分，康奈尔大学学生分析CLEO数据的试点项目非常成功。这里描述的程序是真正的转型。首席研究员进一步开发这些工具，并将其提供给更广泛的小型当地两年制社区学院，从而为教师和学生提供适当的培训，使他们能够参与实际的数据分析。