Excellence In Research : HBCU Collision Collaboration - J/psi Peripheral Collision Analysis and Detection

HBCU对撞机合作的目标是为HBCU核物理和粒子物理学教职员工提供资源，通过研究促进他们集体机构任务的更广泛目标。对撞机合作的成员是佛罗里达农工大学(FAMU)、霍华德大学(HU)和德克萨斯南方大学(TSU)。每个机构的使命都有一个核心承诺，那就是为服务不足的人群增加机会。FAMU和HU都有物理学研究生项目，通过这个项目，将为HBCU及其服务不足的社区更广泛地参与相对论重离子对撞机(RHIC)、杰斐逊实验室和拟议的电子离子对撞机(EIC)在实验核物理方面的重大国家投资计划奠定基础。这个项目有两个相关的目标。1)建议的研究项目包括用RHIC的PHENIX探测器测量重离子碰撞中的超外周J/Psi截面。2)此外，该项目还试图建立一个宇宙线测试台来测试多间隙阻板室，这项技术可以用于现代核物理和粒子物理实验中10皮秒级别的飞行时间测量。这一进展将极大地增强对撞机探测器的粒子识别能力，使更多关于基本物理定律的知识能够从这些碰撞中提取出来。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The HBCU COLLIDER Collaboration's goal is to provide resources for HBCU nuclear and particle physics faculty to further the broader goals of their collective institutional missions through research. The members of the COLLIDER Collaboration are Florida A&M University (FAMU), Howard University (HU), and Texas Southern University (TSU). Each institution's mission has a core commitment to increasing opportunities for underserved populations. Both FAMU and HU have graduate physics programs and, through this project, will lay a foundation for broader participation of HBCUs and their underserved communities in planned major national investments in experimental nuclear physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Jefferson Lab and the proposed Electron Ion Collider (EIC). There are two related objectives for this project. 1) The proposed research project involves the measurement of Ultra-peripheral J/Psi cross sections in heavy ion collisions with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. 2) In addition, the project seeks to build a cosmic ray test stand to test multi gap Resistive Plate Chambers, a technology that can be used for 10 picosecond level time of flight measurements in modern nuclear and particle physics experiments. Such an advance will greatly enhance the particle identification capabilities of collider detectors, enabling more knowledge about the fundamental laws of physics to be extracted from these collisions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.