Elementary Particle Physics with ATLAS

该奖项由《2009年美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。该奖项为纽约大学(NYU)基本粒子物理小组的研究项目提供持续支持。之前在Milagro和RSVP上，纽约大学的小组于2006年加入ATLAS，并已完全过渡到这一实验。它开发了一套全面的计划，涵盖探测器的调试和操作、物理分析和升级工作。这包括继续负责高级触发器中丢失的横向能量部分，致力于ATLAS跟踪探测器的高光度升级，继续开发ATLAS分析架构，以及旨在探测希格斯玻色子衰变到tau轻子的分析工作，测量顶夸克产生，以及早期确定可能的SUSY粒子质量的新方法。更广泛的影响集中在本科生参与研究计划，并通过与纽约大学斯坦哈特教育学院和布鲁克海文国家实验室的持续合作，将粒子物理的兴奋带给纽约市(NYC)中学教师和学生，粒子物理可能在未来几年也将在媒体上突出表现。此外，还计划将目前的ATLAS EVO CERN-美国网络会议扩展到纽约市的中学。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides continuing support for a program of research for the Elementary Particle Physics group at New York University(NYU). Formerly on MILAGRO and RSVP, the NYU group joined ATLAS in 2006 and has transitioned totally to this experiment. It has developed a comprehensive program spanning detector commissioning and operation, physics analyses, and upgrade efforts. This includes continued responsibility for the Missing Transverse Energy component of the High Level Trigger, work toward a high luminosity upgrade of the ATLAS tracking detectors, continued development of the ATLAS Analysis Architecture, and analysis efforts aimed at the detection of the Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons, measurement of top quark production, and new approaches for early determination of possible SUSY particle masses. Broader impact focuses on the involvement of undergraduates in the research program, and bringing the excitement of particle physics, which will likely also be prominent in the media in the next few years, to New York City (NYC) middle-school teachers and students through an ongoing collaboration with the NYU Steinhardt School of Education and Brookhaven National Laboratory. In addition, there are plans to expand the current ATLAS EVO CERN-U.S. web-conferencing to NYC middle schools.