Web-Based High-Energy Particle Physics Event Generation

基于网络的高能粒子物理事件生成

• 批准号: 1068326
• 负责人: Timothy Stelzer
• 金额: $ 33.42万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Web; Based; Energy; Particle; Physics

This award funds the research activities of Professor Tim Stelzer at the University of Illinois. After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now the highest-energy particle collider in the world. Data from the LHC is likely to lead to nothing less than a new "Standard Model" for the next generation of particle physicists, describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions at an even higher energy scale. In his research, Professor Stelzer aims to develop methods to improve the efficiency by which new theories beyond the Standard Model might be tested at the LHC. This class of new theories includes those in which the symmetries of the Standard Model are augmented by a so-called "supersymmetry" relating particles of different spins to each other. Typically, once a new theory has been identified as interesting, it may take a team of researchers a year or more to complete the calculations necessary to determine how this theory could be tested at the LHC. Methods developed and implemented by this award aim to reduce that time from years to days, dramatically increasing the range of new physics that can be studied as the LHC data is collected.This project will also have significant broader impacts. Professor Stelzer will involve graduate students and postdocs in his research, and thereby provide critical training to junior physicists beginning research in this field. He also intends to give public lectures on his research results, and develop new learning materials for undergraduate students based on results from the LHC.

该奖项资助伊利诺伊大学蒂姆·施特尔策教授的研究活动。 经过近20年的规划和建设，大型强子对撞机（LHC）现在是世界上能量最高的粒子对撞机。来自LHC的数据很可能为下一代粒子物理学家带来一个新的“标准模型”，描述物质的基本组成部分及其在更高能量尺度上的相互作用。 在他的研究中，Stelzer教授的目标是开发方法来提高标准模型之外的新理论在LHC上进行测试的效率。 这类新理论包括那些标准模型的对称性被所谓的“超对称性”所增强的理论，所谓的“超对称性”将不同自旋的粒子相互联系起来。 通常情况下，一旦一个新的理论被确定为有趣的，它可能需要一个研究小组一年或更长的时间来完成必要的计算，以确定如何在LHC测试这个理论。 该奖项开发和实施的方法旨在将时间从几年缩短到几天，大大增加在收集LHC数据时可以研究的新物理学的范围。该项目也将产生更广泛的影响。 Stelzer教授将让研究生和博士后参与他的研究，从而为开始在这一领域研究的初级物理学家提供关键培训。 他还打算就自己的研究成果进行公开讲座，并根据LHC的结果为本科生开发新的学习材料。