Search for New Physics at ATLAS with Leptons and Photons

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。该奖项将支持弗雷斯诺加州州立大学的研究和教育推广工作。欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）大型强子对撞机（LHC）的ATLAS探测器的研究将包括进一步开发电子识别算法，改进用于寻找新物理的统计分析方法，以及利用Z衰变反射进行性能研究。弗雷斯诺州立ATLAS小组计划将其性能研究应用于传入的ATLAS数据。这项工作将对校准、探测器性能研究、事件选择和系统不确定性研究产生重大影响，为许多新的物理搜索提供ATLAS数据。该奖项还将支持用统计最优方法对轻子或光子的最终态进行模型无关搜索的计划。这些最终态对标准模型之外的许多新物理很敏感，例如希格斯、引力子和超对称性。在更广泛的影响方面，加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校参与大型强子对撞机研究项目的能力将为科罗拉多州立大学系统创造新的推广和教育机会。该研究项目为科罗拉多州立大学的研究生和本科生在大型强子对撞机进行研究提供了以前在科罗拉多州立大学校园无法获得的新机会。一个允许研究生和本科生在CERN工作6周的暑期项目已经启动。该小组计划促进与科罗拉多州立大学其他校区的教师和学生、中央山谷地区的高中教师和学生的合作，创建新的推广和教育项目，包括参与QuarkNet。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award will support the research and educational outreach efforts at the California State University at Fresno. The research on the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC will include further development of electron identification algorithms, improved statistical analysis method to be used in the search for new physics, and performance studies using reflections of Z decays. The Fresno State ATLAS group plans to apply its performance studies to the incoming ATLAS data. The work will have significant impacts on calibration, detector performance studies, event selections, and systematic uncertainty studies for many new physics searches with the incoming ATLAS data. The award will also support the plans to perform model-independent searches for final states with lepton(s) or photon(s) with statistically optimal method.These final states are sensitive to many new physics beyond the Standard Model, e.g. Higgs, Graviton, and SUSY. On Broader Impacts, The California State University at Fresno ability to participation in the LHC research program will allow the creation of new outreach and educational possibilities in the CSU system. The research program provides new opportunities, previously unavailable to CSU campuses, for CSU graduate and undergraduate students to pursue research at the LHC. A summer program to allow beginning graduate and undergraduate students to work at CERN for 6 weeks has been initiated. The group plans to foster collaboration with faculty and students from other CSU campuses, high school teachers and students in Central Valley area, with the creation of new outreach and educational programs, including participation in the QuarkNet.