Research in Elementary Particle Physics

这项提议请求支持密歇根州立大学的一个小组，该小组在费米实验室Tevatron质子-反质子对撞机的D0实验和日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心的质子-质子大型强子对撞机(LHC)的ATLAS实验的基础上，开展了一个实验基本粒子物理的研究和教育计划。MSU小组组成了D0实验的核心，小组成员之一H.Weerts目前是该实验的联合发言人。该小组对触发的三个级别中的每一个级别的RUN II升级负有主要责任。他们积极从事一些物理分析，包括顶夸克和QCD物理，以及寻找新的现象。该小组在ATLAS方面的工作包括设计和构建Level 2触发系统以及将其与数据采集系统集成。密歇根州立大学小组的成员正在为物理和非科学专业的学生引入技术和智力专业知识，他们的成员B.Pope是QuarkNet的活跃成员，QuarkNet是一个多机构努力，旨在让高中教师和他们的学生参与粒子物理研究。

This proposal requests support for a group at Michigan State University for a program of research and education in experimental elementary particle physics based on the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider and on the ATLAS experiment at the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, Geneva. The MSU group formed the nucleus of the D0 experiment and one of the members of the group, H. Weerts, is currently a co-spokesman for the experiment. The group has major responsibilities to the Run II upgrades at each of the three levels of the trigger. They are actively engaged in a number of physics analyses, including top quark and QCD physics as well as searches for new phenomena. The group's work on ATLAS includes design and construction of the Level 2 trigger system as well as integrating it with the data acquisition system.Members of the MSU group are introducing technical and intellectual expertise into the classroom for both physics and non-science majors and one of their members, B. Pope, is an active member of QuarkNet, the multi-institutional effort to involve high school teachers and their students in particle physics research.