Research with the CMS Detector at the LHC

圣母大学高能物理组致力于通过基于加速器的实验探索粒子物理学的能量前沿。该小组正在瑞士日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心实验室的大型强子对撞机（LHC）上利用紧凑型μ子螺线管（CMS）实验进行几个相关项目，该实验是世界上能量最高的加速器。 该小组还积极参与CMS检测器的未来关键升级，并通过QuarkNet和许多其他面向公众的计划进行教育和推广。 这些活动使该小组处于粒子物理实验和推广的最前沿。该奖项将促进在标准模型之外寻找新物理的进一步发展，这是21世纪物理学中最优先的任务之一。CMS实验最近开始了第一次在13 TeV质心能量下运行的物理，积累了LHC数据集的初始数据，在未来几年内应该超过100 fb-1。这个数据集为电弱尺度的物理学研究提供了前所未有的机会，并为寻找新物理学开辟了一个潜在的戏剧性时代。 由于其分析贡献，圣母院小组在希格斯发现和寻找新现象的最前沿的几项分析中发挥了主导作用。 该奖项将继续该集团的广泛的技术贡献，包括：电磁量热仪的操作和管理美国的贡献;在高水平触发监测的领导地位;在CMS模拟工作和数据保存的领导地位;研究和开发CMS量热法的实验升级，以提高高亮度的性能;在计算领域，该集团拥有与大学计算设施相关的美国CMS管理职位。该组织对外推广工作的核心是QuarkNet，现在已经有18个年头了。圣母院是领导这一国家项目的三个机构之一，也是管理机构。 QuarkNet目前由25个州和波多黎各的50个中心组成，并已扩展到包括7个国家和外国实验室的11个不同的实验项目。 通过QuarkNet这样的努力，粒子物理领域正在创建一套推广材料和演示项目，将粒子物理学的兴奋，LHC的“嗡嗡声”，从课堂上对LHC希格斯数据的真实的物理分析到华盛顿国家航空航天博物馆等博物馆展出的粒子探测器，在多个层面上带给公众。

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.