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

在STEM学科成功的本科教育的核心是通过连接现代技术的使用和迷人的研究领域的迭代为学生提供实践科学探究的机会的能力。 该项目的核心是欧洲核子研究组织（CERN）的一项研究计划，在两个感兴趣的领域研究ALICE实验的重离子碰撞：电磁量能器（EMCal）为ALICE带来的射流物理能力，以及一个适度的R& D组件，以探索通过改进ALICE的跟踪-轨道粒子识别能力与建设一个非常高的动量带电粒子识别探测器（VHMPID），并扩大了EMCaL模块的数量。招聘，保留，和教育科学，技术，工程和数学专业的学生和教师被认为是提高科学素养、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CSU最近制定的高能实验核物理计划来解决这些问题：（1）使用尖端技术进行高能核物理实验提供了一个吸引学生并为学生做好准备的有吸引力的机会，（2）国际实验室的合作计划使学生获得他们无法在本科大学获得的研究经验。 由于我们的学生人口，我们的大学的位置和部门的当前推广计划的构成，这个程序有可能促进内城代表性不足的学生进入干教育。

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.