RUI: Studies of Relativistic Heavy Ions Collisions in ALICE at the LHC

在STEM学科中，成功的本科教育的核心是通过将现代技术的使用与迷人的研究领域联系起来的迭代，为学生提供实践科学探究的机会。该项目以研究欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）重离子碰撞为中心，利用ALICE实验在两个领域进行研究：电磁量热计（EMCal）为ALICE带来的射流物理能力，以及适度的研发组件，通过构建一个非常高动量带电粒子识别探测器（VHMPID）来提高ALICE的逐迹粒子识别能力，并扩大EMCal模块的数量，探索增强EMCal物理可能性。招聘、留住和教育科学、技术、工程和数学学生和教师已被确定为提高科学素养、保持经济增长和为相关科学发现提供平台的基石。该项目通过加强科罗拉多州立大学最近建立的高能核物理实验项目来解决这些问题：(1)使用尖端技术进行高能核物理实验为吸引和准备学生提供了一个有吸引力的机会；(2)在国际实验室的合作项目使学生能够获得他们在本科大学无法获得的研究经验。由于我们学生人口的构成，我们大学的位置以及该部门目前的外展计划，该计划有可能促进市中心代表性不足的学生接受STEM教育。

At the core of a successful undergraduate education in STEM disciplines is the capacity to offer students the opportunity to practice scientific inquiry through the iteration that connects the use of modern technology and captivating areas of research. This project is centered on a research program to study Heavy Ion Collisions at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the ALICE experiment in two areas of interest: the jet physics capabilities brought to ALICE by the electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal), and a modest R&D component to explore the enhancement of the EMCaL physics possibilities by improving ALICE's track-by-track particle identification capabilities with the construction of a very high momentum charged particle identification detector (VHMPID), and the expansion of the number of the EMCaL modules.Recruiting, retaining, and educating science, technology, engineering and mathematics students and teachers has been identified as the cornerstone in the effort to improve scientific literacy, maintain economic growth, and to provide the platform for relevant scientific discoveries. This project addresses these issues by strengthening a recently instituted high-energy experimental nuclear physics program at CSU: (1) The use of cutting-edge technology for high-energy nuclear physics experiments provides an attractive opportunity to captivate and prepare students, (2) A collaborative program at an international laboratory exposes students to research experiences they could not otherwise obtain at an undergraduate university. Because of the make-up of our student population, the location of our university and the current outreach programs of the department, this program has the potential to promote inner-city underrepresented students into STEM education.