A Study of Photo-produced SSbar Excitations in a National Lab - HBCU Partnership to Enhance Minority Participation in Physics

* 9733999Salgado该提案的第一个目标是通过诺福克州立大学学生参与托马斯杰斐逊国家加速器设施（杰斐逊实验室）的实验计划，促进在核物理领域代表性不足的少数民族的包容性。 大多数物质是由夸克的各种组合组成的，夸克有六种。 这项研究将集中在所谓的“奇异”夸克和它们的反物质等价物（称为“奇异夸克”）的组合的性质上，其质量高达质子（氢核）质量的两倍。 测量它们的性质对于理解夸克如何通过强相互作用（核物理的基本相互作用）相互作用非常重要。 Strangonia在被检测到之前会衰变成几种更常见的末态粒子（π介子和K介子）。 Jefferson实验室的CEBAF大型接收光谱仪提供了一个独特的大型接收探测器和高强度光束，以研究这些罕见的多粒子最终状态。

***9733999SalgadoThe first goal of this proposal is to promote the inclusion of under-represented minorities in the field of Nuclear Physics, through the participation of Norfolk State University students in the experimental program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). Most matter is made of various combinations of quarks, of which there are six kinds. This research will focus on the properties of combinations of so called 'strange' quarks and their anti-matter equivalent (called 'strangonia'), up to a mass of twice the mass of the proton (hydrogen nucleus). Measurements of their properties are of great importance for the understanding of how quarks interact with each other through the strong force, the basic interaction of nuclear physics. Strangonia decay to several more common final state particles (pions and kaons) before they can be detected. The CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at Jefferson Lab offers an unique large acceptance detector and a high intensity beam to study these rare multi-particle final states.***