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

招聘、留住和培养科学、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。这个项目的中心是欧洲核子研究组织(CERN)的一个研究项目，该项目利用Alice实验来研究重离子碰撞。它还包括一个电子离子对撞机(EIC)探测器研发的组件，从而为本科生提供参与硬件项目的机会。该项目与其他本科生机构为类似学科的成功研究项目所确定的一致。由于CSU学生的构成、该大学的地理位置以及该系目前的外展计划，该计划有可能促进未被充分代表的市中心学生进入STEM领域。该奖项集中在一个研究计划上，该计划旨在研究CERN与ALICE实验在三个感兴趣的领域的重离子碰撞：Alice的喷注物理能力，一个研发组件，为整合快速相互作用触发(FIT)和前向量热计(FOCUS)做出贡献。它还包括一个研发组件，以推进用于EIC的高分辨率零度量热仪(ZDC)。欧洲核子研究中心重离子计划的重点是了解物质在极高密度下的行为，相当于大爆炸后几分之一秒的条件，当时存在一个由夸克和胶子组成的炎热、致密的介质。我们的目标是通过以非常高的能量碰撞原子核来重现这些条件。芝加哥州立大学将致力于J/psi喷流的物理分析，为这一努力做出贡献。该计划包括调查质子-质子碰撞中夸克-胶子的产生机制以及夸克-胶子介质对铅-铅碰撞中喷射能量沉积的响应的测量。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.