CTEQ Summer School Funding

该奖项将为QCD （CTEQ）暑期学校协调理论实验项目提供未来三年的资金。CTEQ是一个致力于研究强相互作用对对撞机现象过程影响的合作项目。这些效应对于从大多数对撞机实验中提取结果至关重要。例如，要了解大型强子对撞机（LHC）中希格斯玻色子的性质，就需要了解它在质子-质子碰撞中的产生，而这就需要了解夸克、反夸克和胶子是如何融入质子内部的。CTEQ协作提供的正是这种理解。理解希格斯衰变为夸克也依赖于这些知识。CTEQ合作的结果在实验和理论粒子物理学中都是必不可少的，并且被大量使用。CTEQ开办的暑期学校是众多物理学家继续合作的培训基地。他们是真正的国际化学校——2014年的学校在北京，2015年的学校在匹兹堡。超过1000名物理学家参加了CTEQ学校，其中包括9天的讲座和讨论。每所学校有50-100名学生。这对该领域的影响是深远的，这种密切的互动产生了许多合作。每年都有许多学生声称在上学时经济困难，并获得奖学金。该奖项将用于支持学生就读学校。这笔资金将全额支持10名学生，或部分支持更多学生。

This award will provide funding for the Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental Project on QCD (CTEQ) Summer Schools for the next three years. CTEQ is a collaboration dedicated to the effects of the strong interaction on phenomenological processes at colliders. These effects are crucial in extracting results from most collider experiments. For example, understanding the properties of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) requires understanding its production in proton-proton collisions, and that requires understanding how quarks, antiquarks and gluons fit inside of protons. It is this understanding that the CTEQ Collaboration provides. Understanding Higgs decays to quarks also depends on this knowledge. The results of the CTEQ Collaboration are essential in both experimental and theoretical particle physics and are heavily used. The Summer Schools operated by CTEQ are a training ground for numerous physicists to continue the Collaboration. They are truly international - the 2014 School is in Beijing and the 2015 School is in Pittsburgh.Over 1000 physicists have attended the CTEQ Schools, which consist of nine days of lectures and discussion. Each school has 50-100 students attending. The impact on the field is profound, and many collaborations have been generated by this close interaction. Every year, many students claim a financial hardship in attending, and receive fellowships. This award will go to support students in attending the Schools. The funding will fully support 10 students, or partially support many more.