CPP+, the MRS Application of the Centre for Particle Physics

粒子物理中心MRS应用

• 批准号: SAPMR-2018-00005
• 负责人: Pinfold, James
• 金额: $ 24.77万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=718641
• 关键词: CPP+; MRS; Application; Centre; Particle

The CPP+ MRS personnel, for whom we request continued support, combined synergistically with infrastructure resources principally based at the University of Alberta (Alberta), the University of Toronto (Toronto) and York University (York), but also involving the UBC and the University of Regina (Regina), have enabled the creation of the unique CPP+ national resource. This resource enables and facilitates the effective access of Subatomic Physics (SAP) researchers to a number of major international resource centres, namely: BNL (USA), CERN (Switzerland), JLab (USA), the Kamioka Observatory (Japan), the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube), SNOLAB, and TRIUMF. The CPP+ projects range from underground physics at SNOLAB (DEAP, PICO, SNO+) and IceCube/PINGU, through long baseline neutrino physics with the T2K experiment to QCD physics with the Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) in Hall C at JLab. Thence, to high-energy physics at the LHC (ATLAS, MoEDAL). The CPP+ national resource contributes to ~50% of the projects constituting the entire Canadian Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) program. Additionally, the collaborations engaged in these projects involve the majority of SAP institutes in Canada. In order to maximize the accessibility of the CPP+ resource its widely based Operating Committee (OPCOM) comprised of the ten coapplicants on this request and one external member, the Director of IPP, and chaired by its Principal Investigator, continues to provide free, fair and merit driven access to all SAP researchers. This access is web based and available primarily via links available on the IPP and Canadian Institute for Nuclear Physics (CINP) websites. The CPP+ MRS resources are publicized through presentations given at appropriate venues, such as the IPP Town Hall at the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress in 2017. The IPP Director was included in our OPCOM in order to provide arms length oversight and community wide optimization of manpower infrastructure resources across all SAP MRS grants. To sustain this national CPP+ MRS resource we need to retain support for an engineer, a detector technologist, and an electronics technician at Alberta and an engineer based at Toronto. The Toronto Engineer listed in the previous MRS application has now retired and we will be seeking to replace him by an entry level, although fully accredited mechanical engineer. These knowledgeable, skilled and experienced personnel are invaluable assets in the arena of design, construction and testing of state-of-the-art detector and electronic systems for forefront particle s leading experiments - and vital in the training of HQP. They are also absolutely vital to handle the load of diverse, specialized and demanding projects submitted to the resource, recognizing that the demand for service is rarely uniformly balanced across the year.

我们请求继续支持的CPP+ MRS人员与主要位于阿尔伯塔大学（阿尔伯塔）、多伦多大学（多伦多）和约克大学（约克）的基础设施资源协同合作，同时还涉及不列颠哥伦比亚大学和里贾纳大学（里贾纳），创建了独特的CPP+国家资源。该资源使亚原子物理学（SAP）研究人员能够有效地访问一些主要的国际资源中心，即：BNL（美国），CERN（瑞士），JLab（美国），神冈天文台（日本），IceCube中微子天文台（IceCube），SNOLAB和TRIUMF。CPP+项目的范围从SNOLAB（DEAP，皮科，SNO+）和IceCube/PINGU的地下物理，到T2 K实验的长基线中微子物理，再到JLab C厅的超高动量光谱仪（SHMS）的QCD物理。从那以后，到LHC（ATLAS，MoEDAL）的高能物理。 CPP+国家资源贡献了构成整个加拿大粒子物理研究所（IPP）计划的约50%的项目。此外，参与这些项目的合作涉及加拿大大多数SAP研究所。为了最大限度地提高CPP+资源的可访问性，其基础广泛的运营委员会（OPCOM）由10名共同申请人和一名外部成员组成，IPP主任，并由其主要研究员主持，继续向所有SAP研究人员提供免费，公平和价值驱动的访问。这种访问是基于网络的，主要通过IPP和加拿大核物理研究所网站上的链接提供。CPP+ MRS资源通过在适当的场所进行演示来宣传，例如2017年加拿大物理学家协会大会上的IPP市政厅。IPP主任被纳入我们的OPCOM，以便在所有SAP MRS赠款中提供公平监督和社区范围内的人力基础设施资源优化。 为了维持这一国家CPP+ MRS资源，我们需要保留对阿尔伯塔的一名工程师、一名探测器技术专家和一名电子技术人员以及多伦多的一名工程师的支持。在以前的MRS应用程序中列出的多伦多工程师现在已经退休，我们将寻求通过入门级取代他，虽然完全认可的机械工程师。这些知识渊博、技术熟练、经验丰富的人员是竞技场设计、建造和测试最先进的探测器和电子系统的宝贵资产，用于前沿粒子领先实验，对HQP的培训至关重要。 它们对于处理提交给资源的各种各样、专门化和要求高的项目的工作量也绝对至关重要，因为认识到对服务的需求很少在一年中保持均衡。