MRI Consortium: Acquisition of Instrumentation for High-Speed /Radiation-Hard Optical Electronics Design and Testing

该核磁共振协会收购奖为俄亥俄州立大学和南卫理公会大学的粒子物理组提供支持，以升级他们的电子和诊断仪器，使他们能够领导为升级瑞士日内瓦CERN大型强子对撞机的ATLAS实验而开发的超高速光学数据链路。虽然该仪器将对ATLAS的特定子系统产生直接影响，包括Pixel探测器的IBL(或可插入的B层)和液体Ar(LAR)量热，但该仪器将具有更广泛的适用性，适用于需要超高速数据链路的各种应用。这项工作的学术价值与ATLAS的发现潜力直接相关，ATLAS在2012年与CMS共同发现了希格斯玻色子。在这一发现之后，ATLAS的合作继续寻找标准模型物理以外的其他证据，包括超对称性，其中像素探测器和LAR系统是核心。这包括对包含第三代夸克的终态的研究：在像素系统中检测到具有衰变顶点的B夸克，以及具有轻子和喷流的顶级夸克，其能量(和缺失能量)是拉尔量热系统的主要测量责任。该计划的更广泛影响包括加强支持者的校园实验室，这将直接影响研究生和本科生的研究和培训，预计将促进与其他校园研究人员的互动，包括那些工程和其他科学学科。

This MRI Consortium Acquisition Award provides support for particle physics groups at Ohio State University and Southern Methodist University to upgrade their electronic and diagnostic instrumentation, to allow them to lead the development of very high-speed optical data links for the upgrade of ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland. While the instrumentation will have direct impact on specific subsystems of ATLAS including the IBL (or insertable B layer) of the Pixel Detector and for Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimetry, the instrumentation have will have broader applicability to a wide variety of applications requiring ultra high-speed data links. The intellectual merit of the work is directly related to the discovery potential of ATLAS, which with CMS in 2012 co-discovered a Higgs Boson. Following that discovery, the ATLAS collaboration has continued its search for evidence of other beyond the Standard Model physics including supersymmetry, for which the pixel detector and LAr systems are central. This includes the study of final states containing third-generation quarks: b-quarks with decay vertices detected in the pixel system, and top quarks, with leptons and jets, whose energy (and missing energy) is a principal measurement responsibility of the LAr Calorimetry system. The broader impacts of the program include the enhancement to campus laboratories of the proponents, which will directly impact research and training of graduate and undergraduate students, and which is expected to foster interactions with other campus researchers in including those engineering and other science disciplines.