Studies in Elementary Particles

这一奖项将为约翰·霍普金斯大学的一个基本粒子物理学研究项目提供支持。这项研究将在CDF费米拉实验室的Tevatron质子反质子对撞机上进行。该小组的主要责任将是使用硅条对CDF的顶点探测器进行升级，以实现对颗粒的高精度跟踪。其目的是能够标记B介子，研究它们的性质，并继续寻找顶夸克的存在。硅条探测器的使用也将作为它们未来在非常高能量和高亮度对撞机(如SSC)上使用的测试。

This award will provide support to a group from Johns Hopkins University for a research program on the physics of elementary particles. The research will be conducted at the Tevatron proton antiproton collider at Fermilab, CDF. The primary responsibility of the group will be to work on the upgrade of the vertex detector at CDF using silicon strips for high precision tracking of the particles. The aim is to be able to tag B mesons and study their properties and to pursue the search for the existence of the top quark. The use of silicon strip detectors will also serve as test for their future use at very high energy and high luminosity colliders like the SSC.