Particle Physics at Wayne State University

这是韦恩州立大学(WSU)提出的一项建议，目的是对重夸克物理进行研究，并继续开展他们在康奈尔大学进行的CLEO实验。WSU小组和CLEO合作第一次测量了D*+的宽度，并对K*-电子-中微子通道中的D混合设定了第一个限制。对于费米实验室的BTeV实验，WSU小组正在研究该实验执行Charge物理的能力，并正在进行与像素探测器冷却相关的研发。PI是直线对撞机交互作用点束仪器子组的联合领导者。PI将在光度光谱测量方面进行研发。还将在束-束碰撞监视器、作为主跟踪器的负离子时间投影室以及硅基漂移固体跟踪系统方面开展工作。线性对撞机的规划工作包括研究CESR-c/CLEO-c的半轻子D衰变，以及建造BTeV像素冷却系统。韦恩州立大学的外展工作集中在一个单独资助的REU/RET项目上，该项目在冬季培训学生和高中教师，并在夏季将他们带到实验室，例如布鲁克海文的STAR、CESR、CLEO和BTeV。每年有10名学生和4名教师接受培训，其中很大一部分来自代表性不足的群体，在高等教育中排名第一。威斯康星州立大学的项目也产生了直接的研究效益，因为一些学生与PI共同撰写了同行评议的出版物。该项目中建立的联系被用作物理专业研究生和本科生的招生工具。

This is a proposal from Wayne State University (WSU) to perform research on heavy quark physics and continued operations of their efforts on the CLEO experiment at Cornell. The WSU group and the CLEO collaboration made the first measurement of the width the D*+ and set the first limit on D-mixing in the K*-electron-neutrino channel. For the BTeV experiment at Fermilab, the WSU group is studying the experiment's ability to perform charm physics and is doing R&D related to cooling of the pixel detector. The PI is a co-leader of the Interaction Point Beam Instrumentation sub-group for the Linear Collider. The PI will do R&D on measuring the luminosity spectrum. Work will also be done on a monitor of the beam-beam collisions, on a negative ion time projection chamber as a main tracker, and on a silicon-based drift solid state tracking system. Work on the planning for a Linear Collider includes studies of semi-leptonic D decays at CESR-c/CLEO-c, and construction of the BTeV pixel cooling system. The Wayne State University outreach efforts are centered on a separately funded REU/RET program that trains students and high school teachers in the winter and takes them to the labs in the summers, e.g. STAR at Brookhaven, CESR, CLEO, and BTeV. Ten students and four teachers are trained each year with a high fraction being from underrepresented groups and first in family in higher education. The WSU program also produces direct research benefits as a few of the students have co-authored peer reviewed publications with the PI's. The contacts made in the program are used as a recruiting tool for both graduate students in physics and undergraduate physics majors.