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能够通过将现代技术的使用与引人入胜的研究领域相结合的迭代，为学生提供实践科学探究的机会。这个项目的中心是欧洲核子研究组织(CERN)的一个研究计划，该计划与Alice实验在两个感兴趣的领域进行研究：电磁量热计(EMCal)给Alice带来的喷注物理能力，以及适度的R&Amp；D部分通过建造一个非常高动量的带电粒子识别探测器(VHMPID)来提高Alice的逐道粒子识别能力，并扩大EMCaL模块的数量，以探索增强EMCaL物理可能性的方法。重新培养、留住和教育科学、技术、工程和数学学生和教师已被确定为努力提高科学素养、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最近建立的高能实验核物理项目来解决这些问题：(1)将尖端技术用于高能核物理实验提供了一个吸引学生并为其做好准备的机会，(2)国际实验室的合作项目让学生接触到他们在本科大学无法获得的研究经验。由于我们的学生人数构成、我们大学的地理位置以及该系目前的外展计划，该计划有可能促进市中心代表性不足的学生进入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.