Studies of Weak Decays of Charm Quarks at SLAC and Electron-Proton Interactions at HERA (Physics)

这是一项为期三年的女性研究机会计划的持续资助，用于支持爱荷华市爱荷华大学的乌莎·马利克教授的研究。马利克教授将使用来自SLAC的Mark III探测器的数据来研究Charm介子的弱衰变，并为德国汉堡HERA对撞机的Zeus探测器进行软件开发。马利克教授的研究将提供有关基本粒子之间基本力的新信息。SLAC的数据研究将集中在Charm和其他夸克之间的弱力，以及宙斯关于电磁力和弱力对质子结构的影响的实验。

This is a three-year continuing grant in the Research Opportunities for Women Program, for support for the research of Professor Usha Mallik, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Professor Mallik will perform studies of weak decays of charm mesons using data from the Mark III detector at SLAC, and work on software development for the ZEUS detector at the HERA collider in Hamburg, Germany. The research done by Professor Mallik will provide new information on the fundamental forces among elementary particles. The SLAC data studies will focus on the weak forces between charm and other quarks, and the ZEUS experiment on the electromagnetic and weak forces contributing to the structure of the proton.