MRI-R2 Consortium: Development of the U.S. ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) for the Analysis of Data from the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

MRI-R2联盟：开发美国ATLAS物理分析仪器（APAI），用于分析大型强子对撞机ATLAS实验数据

• 批准号: 0959141
• 负责人: Yongsheng Gao
• 金额: $ 62万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0959141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Consortium; Development; U.S.

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Particle physics stands at the threshold of a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins colliding-beam operations. With the highest-energy collisions ever created in a laboratory environment, the CMS collaboration (about 1600 physicists world-wide) will study some of the most fundamental questions of our time, such as the origin of mass, the possible existence of supersymmetry, and the hypothetical existence of extra spatial dimensions. This award allows nine universities (University of Chicago, Columbia University, California State University at Fresno(lead institute), Hampton University, New York University, Northern Illinois University, Michigan State University, Stony Brook University, and the University of Washington) to develop and build the U.S. ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) which is envisioned as a distributed computing facility comprised of a shared array of university-based dedicated analysis computers utilizing the Open Science Grid infrastructure. The APAI will provide a unique opportunity for university faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students to participate and make transformative discoveries in experimental particle physics using data from the ATLAS experiment.This award provides the means for the consortium institutions to enhance their prestige and compete at an international level. The cutting edge research to be performed at the LHC has the potential to re-invigorate the interest of undergraduates in science. The APAI offers a unique tool to integrate educational opportunities for undergraduates with some of the most exciting and compelling scientific research being done today. Some members of this consortium have a tradition of serving underrepresented groups, African Americans, Hispanics, and "first-generation" college students, thus one expects the compelling nature of the research being proposed will allow them to attract these underrepresented students. Furthermore, the APAI represents a transformational way of viewing and using distributed clusters and could lead to significant improvements in the way large collaborations approach physics analyses.

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。随着大型强子对撞机（LHC）开始对撞束操作，粒子物理学站在了一个新的发现时代的门槛上。通过在实验室环境中产生的最高能量的碰撞，CMS合作（全球约1600名物理学家）将研究我们这个时代的一些最基本的问题，例如质量的起源，超对称的可能存在，以及额外空间维度的假设存在。该奖项允许九所大学（芝加哥大学、哥伦比亚大学、加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校（牵头研究所）、汉普顿大学、纽约大学、北方伊利诺伊大学、密歇根州立大学、斯托尼布鲁克大学、和华盛顿大学）开发和建造美国ATLAS物理分析仪器（APAI）其被设想为分布式计算设施，包括利用开放科学网格基础设施的基于大学的专用分析计算机的共享阵列。APAI将为大学教师、博士后研究人员、研究生和本科生提供一个独特的机会，利用ATLAS实验的数据参与并在实验粒子物理学领域做出变革性的发现。该奖项为联盟机构提供了提高声誉和在国际水平上竞争的手段。在LHC进行的前沿研究有可能重新激发本科生对科学的兴趣。APAI提供了一个独特的工具，将本科生的教育机会与当今正在进行的一些最令人兴奋和最引人注目的科学研究相结合。该联盟的一些成员有为代表性不足的群体，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人和“第一代”大学生服务的传统，因此人们期望所提出的研究的引人注目的性质将使他们能够吸引这些代表性不足的学生。此外，APAI代表了一种查看和使用分布式集群的变革方式，并可能导致大型协作方法物理分析方式的显着改进。