Elementary Particle Physics

该奖项颁发给休斯敦大学的一名高级教员、一名研究助理教授和一名研究生。该项目有三个不同的组件活动。主要的工作是在欧洲核子研究中心进行SMC实验，研究极化介子在极化质子和氘核上的非弹性散射。通过这种方式，可以得到有关夸克成分对核子自旋的贡献的信息，即自旋相关的结构函数。该小组继续参与在SSC运行的GEM探测器的研发。一些关注继续给予LVD仍在施工中的Gran Sasso在意大利。LVD有望探测恒星坍缩过程中释放的中微子，收集中微子类型之间可能振荡的信息，并寻找质子衰变的证据。

This award is for research by a senior University of Houston faculty member, a research assistant professor and a graduate student. The project has three distinct component activities. The major effort is the SMC experiment at CERN, which studies inelastic scattering of polarized muons on polarized protons and deuterons. In this way information is gotten on the underlying quark constituent contribution to the nucleon spin, the spin-dependent structure functions. The group continues to be involved in R&D for the GEM detector to operate at the SSC. Some attention continues to be given LVD still in construction at Gran Sasso in Italy. LVD is expected to detect neutrinos emitted in stellar collapse, gather information about possible oscillations among neutrino types and seek evidence of proton decay.