RUI: Studies of Relativistic Heavy Ions Collisions in ALICE at the LHC

招募、留住和教育科学、技术、工程和数学学生和教师已被确定为提高科学素养、保持经济增长和为相关科学发现提供平台的基石。该奖项通过支持CSU的高能实验核物理计划来解决这些问题。该项目以欧洲核子研究组织（CERN）的ALICE实验研究重离子碰撞的研究计划为中心。 它还包括电子离子对撞机（EIC）的探测器研发组件，从而为本科生参与硬件项目提供了机会。该项目与其他本科院校为类似学科确定的成功研究项目保持一致。由于CSU的学生人数构成，大学的位置，以及该系目前的推广计划，该计划有潜力促进代表性不足的市中心学生进入STEM领域。该奖项集中在一个研究计划，研究欧洲核子研究中心的重离子碰撞与ALICE实验在三个感兴趣的领域：ALICE的射流物理能力，一个研发组件，以促进快速相互作用触发器（FIT）的集成，和前向量热计（FoCal）。它还包括一个研发组件，以推进用于EIC的高分辨率零度热量计（ZDC）。欧洲核子研究中心重离子计划的重点是了解物质在非常高密度下的行为，对应于大爆炸后几分之一秒的条件，当时存在夸克和胶子的热而稠密的介质。目标是通过在非常高的能量下碰撞原子核来重现这些条件。芝加哥州立大学将通过对J/psi射流的物理分析来为这一努力做出贡献。一个项目包括测量质子-质子碰撞中夸克偶素的产生机制以及铅-铅碰撞中夸克-胶子介质对喷流能量沉积的响应。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。

Recruiting, retaining, and educating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students and teachers has been identified as the cornerstone to improving scientific literacy, maintaining economic growth, and providing the platform for relevant scientific discoveries. This award addresses these issues by supporting CSU's high-energy experimental nuclear physics program. This project is centered on a research program to study heavy ion collisions at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the ALICE experiment. It also includes a component on detector R&D for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), and thereby provides opportunities for the involvement of undergraduate students in hardware projects. The project aligns with what other undergraduate institutions have identified for successful research projects for similar disciplines. Because of the make-up of the CSU student population, the location of the university, and the current outreach programs of the department, this program has the potential to promote underrepresented inner-city students into STEM fields.This award is centered on a research program to study heavy ion collisions at CERN with the ALICE experiment in three areas of interest: the jet physics capabilities of ALICE, an R&D component to contribute to the integration of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT), and the Forward Calorimeter (FoCal). It also includes an R&D component to advance the high-resolution Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) for the EIC. The focus of the heavy ion program at CERN is to understand the behavior of matter at very high density, corresponding to conditions a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when a hot, dense medium of quarks and gluons existed. The goal is to recreate these conditions via colliding nuclei at very high energies. Chicago State University will contribute to this effort by working on the physics analysis of J/psi jets. A program includes measurements to investigate the production mechanism of quarkonia in proton-proton collisions and the response of the quark-gluon medium to jet energy deposition in lead-lead 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.