Studies in Elementary Particle Physics

世纪的主要学术成就之一是粒子物理学标准模型（SM）的发展。这个模型成功地将当时已知的所有基本粒子分类为具有类似量子性质的层次结构。到目前为止，这个模型的有效性被大型强子对撞机（LHC）发现的希格斯玻色子所证实。然而，目前存在的标准模型留下了许多关于宇宙的问题，包括为什么希格斯质量具有它的价值等基本问题。LHC的紧凑μ子螺线管（CMS）实验的主要功能之一是发现标准模型之外的新物理，该实验仍然是瑞士日内瓦附近的CERN实验室的首要能源前沿粒子加速器。该项目将分析CMS实验的最新数据，寻找超出标准模型的信号。该奖项将影响三个广泛的领域：1）推进可能在LHC发现新物理的分析技术2）CMS探测器（HL-LHC）的新跟踪探测器升级的校准和3）劳动力发展和更广泛的社区推广。该小组领导了发现希格斯粒子的4轻子衰变通道的工作。 该奖项将扩展在该发现中开发的分析技术，将其应用于LHC现在提供的新数据，并将其用于标准模型之外的物理学新搜索。 为了发现这种新的物理学，该小组将探测希格斯玻色子的大数据样本，测量细节，如希格斯玻色子质量，宽度，量子数，电荷宇称性质的精确测量，以及更普遍的希格斯与矢量玻色子和费米子相互作用的张量结构。现在可用的更大的数据集可能会产生新的对称性破坏来源（称为电荷宇称或CP破坏），可能与希格斯玻色子有关。该项目还将支持对CMS探测器的操作和对LHC高亮度升级的新探测器技术的研究的技术贡献，HL-LHC现在刚刚开始。对探测器升级研究的贡献基于为支持当前操作而开发的工具。PI的小组是一个QuarkNet中心的主持人，该中心目前有25名巴尔的摩地区的高中教师。QuarkNet中心发起并帮助组织了一系列非常成功的区域物理博览会，为数千名当地居民带来了科学。该奖项反映了NSF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。

One of the major intellectual achievements of the 20th century was the development of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. This model succeeded in classifying all the elementary particles known at the time into a hierarchy of groups having similar quantum properties. The validity of this model to date was confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, the Standard Model as it currently exists leaves open many questions about the universe, including such fundamental questions as to why the Higgs mass has the value it has. One of the primary functions of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC, which remains the premier Energy Frontier particle accelerator, operating at the CERN laboratory near Geneva Switzerland, is to discover new physics beyond the Standard Model. This project will analyze the latest data from the CMS experiment looking for signals of beyond the Standard Model. The work that will be accomplished with this award will impact three broad areas: 1) furthering the analysis techniques that might well discover new physics at the LHC 2) Alignment of the new tracking detector upgrade of the CMS detector (HL-LHC) and 3) workforce development and outreach to the broader community.This group led the work on the 4-lepton decay channel in the discovery of the Higgs. This award will expand on analysis techniques developed in that discovery, applying it to the new data that has now been delivered by the LHC and use it in new searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. To discover this new physics, this group will probe the large data sample of Higgs bosons, measuring details such as precision measurements of the Higgs boson mass, width, quantum numbers, Charge Parity properties, and more generally, the tensor structure of Higgs interactions with vector bosons and fermions. The larger dataset now available could yield new sources of symmetry violation (called Charged Parity or CP violation) that might be associated with the Higgs boson. This project will also support technical contributions to the operation of the CMS detector and to the study of new detector technology for high luminosity upgrades of the LHC, the HL-LHC which has now just started. The contributions to the study of detector upgrades are based on tools that were developed to support the present operation. The PI's group is the host of a QuarkNet center that has a current membership of 25 Baltimore area high school teachers. The QuarkNet center has initiated and helped to organize a very successful series of regional Physics Fairs that have brought science to thousands of area residents.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.