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

招聘、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。该奖项通过支持科罗拉多州立大学的高能实验核物理项目来解决这些问题。该项目以研究欧洲核子研究组织（CERN）的重离子碰撞为中心，利用ALICE实验进行研究。它还包括电子-离子对撞机（EIC）的探测器R&amp；D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。由于科罗拉多州立大学学生的构成、大学的位置以及该部门目前的外展计划，该计划有可能促进代表性不足的市中心学生进入STEM领域。该奖项的重点是研究欧洲核子研究中心的重离子碰撞，利用ALICE实验在三个感兴趣的领域进行研究：ALICE的射流物理能力、用于集成快速相互作用触发器（FIT）的研发组件和前向量热计（FoCal）。它还包括一个研发组件，用于推进EIC的高分辨率零度热量计（ZDC）。欧洲核子研究中心重离子项目的重点是了解高密度物质的行为，这与大爆炸后不到一秒的情况相对应，当时存在一个由夸克和胶子组成的热而稠密的介质。目标是通过高能核碰撞来重现这些条件。芝加哥州立大学将通过对J/psi射流的物理分析来为这项工作做出贡献。一个程序包括测量质子-质子碰撞中夸克子的产生机制和夸克-胶子介质对铅-铅碰撞中射流能量沉积的响应。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。

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.