Research with the CMS Detector at the LHC

圣母大学高能物理小组致力于通过基于加速器的实验探索粒子物理的能量前沿。该小组利用位于瑞士日内瓦的欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）实验室的大型强子对撞机（LHC）上的紧凑型μ子螺线管（CMS）实验进行了几个相关项目，LHC是世界上能量最高的加速器。该小组还积极参与CMS探测器的未来关键升级，以及通过QuarkNet和许多其他面向公众的倡议进行教育和推广。这些活动使该小组处于粒子物理实验和推广的最前沿。这个奖项将促进对标准模型之外的新物理学的进一步探索，这是21世纪物理学中最优先的任务之一。CMS实验最近在13 TeV的质能中心开始了第一次物理运行，从大型强子对撞机数据集中积累了最初的数据，在未来几年内，数据将超过100 fb-1。该数据集为电弱尺度的物理研究提供了前所未有的机会，并开启了寻找新物理学的潜在戏剧性时代。由于其分析贡献，巴黎圣母院小组在希格斯玻色子发现和新现象搜索的前沿分析中发挥了主导作用。该奖项将继续该小组的广泛技术贡献，包括：美国对电磁热量计操作和管理的贡献；领导高水平触发器监测；领导CMS模拟工作和数据保存；研究和开发CMS量热仪的实验升级，以提高其在高亮度下的性能；在计算机领域，该团队拥有与大学计算设施相关的美国CMS管理职位。该组织拓展工作的核心是QuarkNet，现在已经成立18年了。巴黎圣母院是领导这个国家项目的三个机构之一，也是管理机构。QuarkNet目前在25个州和波多黎各拥有50个中心，并已扩展到包括7个国内外实验室的11个不同的实验项目。通过像QuarkNet这样的努力，粒子物理领域正在创建一套推广材料和示范项目，将粒子物理的兴奋，关于大型强子对撞机的“嗡嗡声”，在多个层面上带给公众，从教室里对大型强子对撞机希格斯数据的真实物理分析到在博物馆展出的粒子探测器，如华盛顿特区的国家航空航天博物馆。

The University of Notre Dame High Energy Physics Group is committed to the exploration of the energy frontier in particle physics with accelerator-based experiments. The group is engaged in several related projects using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland, the highest energy accelerator in the world. The group is also active in future critical upgrades of the CMS detector and and Education and Outreach through QuarkNet and many other public-facing initiatives. Together these activities place the group at the forefront of both particle physics experimentation and outreach. This award will facilitate further developments in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, one of the highest priority quests in physics for the 21st century.The CMS experiment has recently begun the first physics run at 13 TeV center of mass energy, accumulating initial data from an LHC dataset that should exceed 100 fb-1 over the next few years. This dataset represents an unprecedented opportunity for physics studies at the electroweak scale and opens a potentially dramatic era in the search for new physics. For its analytical contributions, the Notre Dame group has taken a leading role in several analyses at the forefront of the Higgs discovery and searches for new phenomena. This award will continue this group's broad technical contributions, including: electromagnetic calorimeter operations and management of the U.S. contributions; leadership in High Level Trigger monitoring; leadership in the CMS Simulation effort and in Data Preservation; research and development for experimental upgrades of CMS calorimetry for improved performance at high luminosity; and in Computing, the group holds a U.S. CMS management position related to university-based computing facilities. The centerpiece of the group's outreach efforts is QuarkNet, now in its eighteenth year. Notre Dame is one of three institutions leading this national project and is the managing institution. QuarkNet currently consists of 50 Centers in 25 States and Puerto Rico and has been expanded to include eleven different experimental programs at seven national and foreign laboratories. Through such efforts as QuarkNet, the particle physics field is creating a suite of outreach materials and demonstration projects that bring the excitement of particle physics, the "buzz" about the LHC, to the public on a number of levels, from real physics analysis on LHC Higgs data in the classroom to particle detectors on display in museums such as the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.