Search for New Physics at ATLAS with Leptons and Photons

该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。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。 CERN LHC ATLAS 探测器的研究将包括电子识别算法的进一步开发、用于寻找新物理的改进统计分析方法以及使用 Z 衰变反射的性能研究。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。这项工作将对使用传入的 ATLAS 数据进行许多新物理搜索的校准、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。该奖项还将支持利用统计最佳方法对轻子或光子的最终状态进行与模型无关的搜索的计划。这些最终状态对标准模型之外的许多新物理很敏感，例如。希格斯粒子、引力子和超对称粒子。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加州州立大学系统中创造新的外展和教育可能性。该研究项目为科罗拉多州立大学研究生和本科生在大型强子对撞机上开展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。一项允许研究生和本科生在 CERN 工作 6 周的暑期项目已经启动。该小组计划通过创建新的外展和教育项目（包括参与 QuarkNet），促进与科罗拉多州立大学其他校区的教师和学生、中央谷地区的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.