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核物理和粒子物理教师提供资源，通过研究进一步实现他们集体机构使命的更广泛目标。对撞机合作项目的成员包括佛罗里达农工大学（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，即为服务不足的人群增加机会。FAMU和HU都有研究生物理项目，通过这个项目，将为hbcu及其服务不足的社区更广泛地参与计划中的重大国家投资，在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）的实验核物理奠定基础。这个项目有两个相关的目标。1)拟开展的研究项目涉及利用RHIC的PHENIX探测器测量重离子碰撞的超外围J/Psi截面。2)建设宇宙射线试验台，对现代核物理和粒子物理实验中可用于10皮秒级飞行时间测量的多间隙电阻板室技术进行测试。这一进展将大大提高对撞机探测器的粒子识别能力，使更多关于物理基本定律的知识能够从这些碰撞中提取出来。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.