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)提供资金的。该奖项将支持加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校的研究和教育推广工作。欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机ATLAS探测器的研究将包括进一步开发电子识别算法，改进统计分析方法用于寻找新物理，以及使用Z衰变反射进行性能研究。弗雷斯诺州ATLAS小组计划将其性能研究应用于传入的ATLAS数据。这项工作将对利用传入的ATLAS数据进行许多新的物理搜索的校准、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。该奖项还将支持使用统计最优方法执行与模型无关的轻子(S)或光子(S)终态搜索的计划。这些终态对许多标准模型以外的新物理很敏感，例如希格斯、引力和超对称。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计划的能力将允许在CSU系统中创造新的扩展和教育可能性。该研究计划为CSU研究生和本科生在大型强子对撞机上进行研究提供了以前在CSU校园无法获得的新机会。欧洲核子研究中心启动了一个暑期计划，允许研究生和本科生在欧洲核子研究中心工作6周。该小组计划通过创建新的外联和教育方案，包括参与QuarkNet，促进与中央山谷地区CSU其他校区的教职员工和学生、高中教师和学生的合作。

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.