Participation of Young Scientists to the Workshop LoopFest XIII, City Tech, New York, June 2014

LoopFest是始于2002年的一系列研讨会，每年在美国各地的大学举行。这是一次大型会议，其目标是向与会者介绍关于对撞机高精度强相互作用效应的最新发展。虽然会议都在美国举行，但演讲者和参与者来自世界各地。科学组委会有几名核心成员。这些物理学家正在参与一项计划，以促进对量子色动力学的研究和理解。量子色动力学(QCD)支配着基本粒子之间的强相互作用，它在高能下的研究越来越多地被基本粒子和核物理所共享。LoopFest研讨会的目的是协调有关大型强子对撞机(LHC)和未来线性对撞机的高精度研究的活动。大型强子对撞机将在未来几年内对希格斯玻色子进行广泛的研究，而强相互作用效应为这项研究提供了最大的不确定性。有许多过程有许多环路，虚拟的相互作用增加了过程的复杂性，有大量的传入和传出胶子，粒子介导了强烈的相互作用。研讨会不仅研究这些，寻找新的计算方法，还研究如何最好地将新结果与实验者使用的事件生成器连接起来。因此，虽然LoopFest的组织者都是理论家，但也有一些实验讲座，以促进两个社区之间的交流。组织者还确保出席会议的初级物理学家也有机会与高级物理学家就他们的研究进行密切互动。该奖项为学生提供参加2014年6月LoopFest会议的旅费，并支付他们的部分费用。

LoopFest is a series of workshops begun in 2002 and held annually at various universities across the US. This is a large meeting whose goal is to bring participants up to speed on recent developments regarding high-precision strong interaction effects at colliders. Although the conferences are all in the US, speakers and participants come from all around the world. There are several core members of the scientific organizing committee. These physicists are engaged in a program to advance research in and understanding of quantum chromodynamics. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) governs the strong interactions of elementary particles, and its study at high energies is increasingly shared by both elementary particle and nuclear physics. The aim of the LoopFest workshops is to coordinate activities focused on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and on high precision research at a future linear collider. The LHC will be studying the Higgs boson extensively in the next few years, and strong interaction effects provide the biggest uncertainties in this study. There are many processes with a number of loops, virtual interactions that add to the complexity of the process, with a large number of incoming and outgoing gluons, particles that mediate the strong interaction. The workshops not only study these, looking at new computational approaches, but also study how to best interface the new results with event generators used by the experimenters. Thus, although the LoopFest organizers are all theorists, there are a number of experimental talks as well, in order to facilitate exchanges between the two communities. The organizers also ensure that junior physicists in attendance also have the opportunity to interact closely with the senior physicists about their research. This award provides support for students to travel to the 2014 LoopFest conference in June and for some of their expenses.