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

HBCU COLLIDER协作的目标是为HBCU核和粒子物理教师提供资源，以通过研究进一步实现其集体机构使命的更广泛目标。 COLLIDER协作的成员是佛罗里达A M大学（FAMU）、霍华德大学（HU）和德克萨斯南方大学（大津）。 每个机构的使命都有一个核心承诺，即为得不到充分服务的人口增加机会。 FAMU和HU都有研究生物理课程，通过这个项目，将为HBCU及其服务不足的社区更广泛地参与计划中的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）实验核物理的重大国家投资奠定基础。该项目有两个相关的目标。 1)拟议的研究项目涉及在RHIC与PHENIX探测器的重离子碰撞超周边J/Psi截面的测量。 2)此外，该项目还寻求建立一个宇宙射线测试台，以测试多间隙电阻板室，这是一种可用于现代核和粒子物理实验中10皮秒级飞行时间测量的技术。 这一进步将极大地提高对撞机探测器的粒子识别能力，使更多的知识关于物理学的基本定律，以提取这些碰撞。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.