Carleton technical team for particle physics research

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This grant application is to fund a technical team which provides computer and technical support at Carleton University for research in particle physics. This team consists of a designer, an electronics specialist, a technician and a software and grid computing expert. This team of people has many years of experience in designing, building and installing detectors for particle physics experiments and in providing computer support for simulation and data analysis. Highlights of these activities include apparatus built for experiments at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva and components for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) located in the INCO Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario. For CERN, the group built detectors to locate and measure particle tracks with high precision and very dense detectors to absorb and measure the total energy of high energy particles. For SNO, the group designed and built water purification systems for both the light and heavy water used to study neutrinos coming from the sun. These water systems reduced the contamination in both kinds of water to levels never before achieved.