MRI: Development of High Granularity Position Sensitive Single Photon Detector Systems

锡拉丘兹大学小组的这项提案要求资金用于开发仪器，重点是大面积，高粒度，单光子探测器，活跃在电磁波谱的可见区域，以及相关的电子和数据采集系统。两种解决方案将基于两个相互竞争的光子探测器来实现。设想该系统的主要应用是环形成像切伦科夫探测器（RICH），这是费米国家加速器实验室BTeV实验的关键组成部分，可以广泛研究魅力夸克和美丽夸克，特别强调CP破坏和罕见衰变。BTeV RICH将主要在锡拉丘兹大学建造。这个影响深远的物理学项目很可能为新物理学提供关键的标志，也就是说，超越我们目前理解的物理学，被称为标准模型。BTeV丰富的现象学为我们的研究生和本科生提供了独特的教育环境。优秀的物理分析机会与新型探测器的开发相结合，将使雪城大学成为培养下一代高能物理学家的领先大学之一。在实验物理和医学的各个领域，对这些仪器的兴趣正在增长。因此，两个教育模块的协同发展将包括在几个实验物理课程和实践推广活动定期安排在部门计划。

This proposal from the Syracuse University group requests funds to develop instrumentation focusing on large area, high granularity, single photon detectors, active in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and their associated electronics and data acquisition system. Two solutions will be implemented based on two competing photon detectors. The primary application envisaged for this system is the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector (RICH), a crucial component of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory BTeV experiment enabling the extensive study of charm and beauty quarks, with particular emphasis on CP violation and rare decays. The BTeV RICH will be constructed mainly at Syracuse University. This far-reaching physics program is likely to provide crucial signatures for new physics, that is, physics beyond our current understanding, called the Standard Model. The rich phenomenology to be explored with BTeV makes it a unique educational environment for our graduate and undergraduate students. The combination of excellent physics analysis opportunities with novel detector development will empower Syracuse University to be one of the leading university in training the next generations of high-energy physicists. Interest in these instruments is growing in a variety of fields of experimental physics and medicine. Thus, a synergistic development of two educational modules to be included in several experimental physics course offerings and hands-on outreach activities periodically scheduled in the department is planned.