Carleton technical team for particle physics research

卡尔顿粒子物理研究技术团队

• 批准号: 350855-2013
• 负责人: Oakham, Frank
• 金额: $ 16.03万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=572536
• 关键词: Carleton; technical; team; particle; physics

This grant application is to fund a technical team that 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 data acquisition 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 acquisition. Highlights of past activities include apparatus built for experiments at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva and experiment design for underground physics experiments. 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 particles. For underground physics provided components for the water purification system for the SNO Detector in Sudbury, Ontario and engineering for the EXO detector in WIPP New Mexico. The proposed activities of the group for the tenure of the MRS grant is to assist in the design and development of innovative detectors for SNOLAB located in the Vale Creighton mine near Sudbury, Ontario, for upgrades of the ATLAS detector located in CERN, Geneva and development work for future international accelerators. SNOLAB experiments will explore the properties of the elusive neutrino and look for "dark matter particles" that appear to dominate the material of the universe. The ATLAS experiment will explore a broad range of physics including the properties of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle. Detectors will be developed for future accelerators including SuperB located in the Cabibbo laboratory in Italy and the International Linear Collider (ILC), a precision machine at the energy frontier. The technical group will also be supporting simulation software and data analysis packages, as well as the establishment of infrastructure for data acquisition systems for beam test environments.

这项拨款申请是为了资助一个技术团队，为卡尔顿大学的粒子物理学研究提供计算机和技术支持。这个团队由一名设计师、一名电子专家、一名技术人员和一名软件和数据采集专家组成。这个团队在设计，建造和安装粒子物理实验探测器以及为模拟和数据采集提供计算机支持方面拥有多年的经验。过去活动的亮点包括为欧洲核子研究中心、日内瓦的欧洲粒子物理实验室建造实验设备，以及为地下物理实验设计实验。对于欧洲核子研究中心，该小组建造了高精度的探测器来定位和测量粒子轨迹，并且非常密集的探测器来吸收和测量粒子的总能量。对于地下物理，为安大略省萨德伯里的SNO探测器的水净化系统提供组件，并为新墨西哥州WIPP的EXO探测器提供工程。