CAREER: Search for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC

该项目支持伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）的一个CAREER计划，以使用紧凑μ子螺线管（CMS）实验在CERN大型强子对撞机（LHC）中寻找可能的新基本相互作用产生的暗物质的特征。 大质量暗物质粒子的一个关键特征是，它会不留痕迹地逃离探测器，导致明显的横向动量不平衡。这个项目的独特贡献是一个通用的，包容性的搜索高度提升强子衰变粒子的事件与大失踪的横向动量，引起了“有趣的外观”射流，无论是重助推粒子（顶部的，W的，Z的）或浅色单态助推粒子（轴子状粒子），在级联衰变链中可能的新的重，成对产生的有色粒子发射。该计划有可能揭示暗物质的起源，并可能在LHC寻找新现象方面开辟新天地。 更广泛的影响是针对芝加哥地区的高中，这些高中使用亚利桑那大学开发的积极发现教学格式，称为“建模物理”，以及不使用“建模物理”方法的芝加哥市中心学校。与UIC教育学院在中学科学教育中的认证计划一起，课程计划将在“建模物理”方法中开发，使高中教师能够将来自LHC的粒子物理学的一些最新和最令人兴奋的科学发展纳入课堂。

This project supports a CAREER program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to search for signatures of dark matter produced by possible new fundamental interactions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment. A key signature of a massive dark matter particle is that it escapes the detector without a trace, causing an apparent large transverse momentum imbalance. The unique contribution of this project is a generic, inclusive search for highly boosted hadronically decaying particles in events with large missing transverse momentum, giving rise to "funny-looking" jets, be they heavy boosted particles (top's, W's, Z's) or light color-singlet boosted particles (axion-like particles), emitted in the cascade decay chains of possible new heavy, pair-produced colored particles. This plan has the potential to shed light on the origin of dark matter and could break new ground in the search for new phenomena at the LHC. The broader impacts are directed toward high schools in Chicago area, which use an active discovery format of teaching developed at the University of Arizona, known as "Modeling Physics", as well as inner city Chicago schools not using the "Modeling Physics" method. Together with the UIC College of Education's certification program in secondary science education, lesson plans will be developed within the "Modeling Physics" methodology that enable high school teachers to incorporate some of the latest and most exciting scientific developments of particle physics coming from the LHC into their classrooms.