CAREER:Two Higgs are Better than One: Investigating Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC and Beyond with Real-Time Charged Particle Reconstruction

该奖项为斯坦福大学的新助理教授PI提供了一个职业奖，他在位于瑞士日内瓦的欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的大型强子对撞机（LHC）进行ATLAS实验。大型强子对撞机和大型粒子探测器阿特拉斯（ATLAS）是利用美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和世界各地其他机构的资金建造的基础科学工具。在建造时，大型强子对撞机的主要目标之一是找到希格斯玻色子——历史上成功的“标准模型”（SM）中的最后一个粒子，它解释了宇宙中可见物质的存在和已知粒子之间的作用力。对希格斯玻色子的搜索是成功的，所以发现粒子物理学领域内的粒子，超越SM是现在的目标。这个奖项是为了奖励那些通过过滤掉含有两个希格斯玻色子的事件而导致这一发现的工作。首席研究员Lauren Tompkins正在斯坦福大学成立一个新的高能物理实验小组，该小组将研究一些软件算法，这些算法将与一个新的实时硬件轨道重建模块（FTK）一起工作，从而大大丰富希格斯对候选者的样本。她将在合作中担任主要角色，以实现这一目标。该组织将通过为斯坦福学生开设的课程，以及与当地学校的联系，支持一个积极而精心策划的更广泛的影响项目。主要目的之一是增加物理专业的入学人数。她还将在暑假期间指导加州州立大学的贫困学生。这些学生将获得硬件和软件的实践经验。

This award supports a Career Award for the PI, a new assistant professor at Stanford U, to work on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC machine and ATLAS, a large particle detector facility, were built as basic science tools using funds from NSF and other agencies around the world. One of the primary objectives of the LHC at the time of construction was to find the Higgs Boson - the last particle in the historically successful "Standard Model" (SM) that accounts for so much of the existence of and forces between known particles forming the visible matter in the universe. The search for the Higgs Boson was successful, so the discovery of the particles that lie within the realm of particle physics physics beyond the SM is now the goal. This award is for work that could lead to such a discovery by filtering out events with two Higgs Bosons in them.Principal Investigator Lauren Tompkins is starting a new experimental high energy physics group at Stanford University which will pursue a number of software algorithms that, working with a new real time hardware track reconstruction module (the FTK), will lead to a greatly enriched sample of Higgs pair candidates. She will take primary roles within the collaboration to carry this out. The group will support a vigorous and carefully planned broader impact program through courses for Stanford students and also outreach to local schools. One of the principal aims is to increase enrollment in physics. She will also mentor under-privileged students from Cal State institutions during summer break. These students will obtain hands-on experience with both hardware and software.