Searches for New Phenomena with High Energy Particle Colliders

该提案要求为北伊利诺伊大学（NIU）的一个小组提供资金，以开展高能粒子对撞机的研究和教育计划，以寻找新的现象。他们的两项主要活动将集中在费米实验室Tevatron的D0实验和线性对撞机探测器的量热和介子跟踪。D0实验的目标是研究顶夸克和电弱玻色子，寻找超对称粒子和夸克复合等新现象，研究量子色动力学。NIU小组除了为寻找新物理做出贡献外，还将领导调试跟踪触发器，校准μ子闪烁计数器，研究μ子触发器的第二硬件阶段以及部分μ子软件分析代码和粒子识别。他们还将协调D0的tau和喷气机识别工作组。NIU小组积极从事线性对撞机的研发，研究数字强子量热计原型，模拟和能量流算法以及介子跟踪探测器的设计研究。该项目还将对伊利诺伊州北部从K-12到研究生院的教育产生广泛影响。该组织为当地的中小学和社区中心开展了一个外展项目。这样做的目的是增加附近地区的科学知识，并使市民熟悉高能物理和费米实验室。

This proposal requests funds for a group at Northern Illinois University (NIU) to pursue a research and education program with high-energy particle colliders to search for new phenomena. Their two main activities will be centered on the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron and on Linear Collider Detector calorimetry and muon tracking. The goals of the D0 experiment are to study the top quark and electroweak bosons, to search for new phenomena such as supersymmetric particles and quark compositeness and to study Quantum Chromodynamics. The NIU group, in addition to contributing to the searches for new physics, will lead the efforts on commissioning the tracking trigger, on calibrating the muon scintillation counters and working on the second hardware stage of the muon trigger and parts of the muon software analysis code and particle identification. They will also coordinate the tau and jet identification working groups in D0.The NIU group is active in linear collider R&D, working on a digital hadron calorimeter prototype, on simulations and energy flow algorithms and on muon tracking detector design studies.The program will also have a broad impact on education in northern Illinois from K-12 through graduate school. The group operates an outreach program for local elementary and secondary schools and community centers. This is designed to increase scientific knowledge in the immediate area and to familiarize citizens with high-energy physics and with Fermilab.