Experimental High Energy Physics

费米实验室（Tevatron）和欧洲核子研究中心（LHC）的哈伦对撞机有望在不久的将来成为探索高质量尺度（Terascale）的有效工具。该提案要求继续支持内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校（UNL）实验高能物理（HEP）小组的前沿对撞机物理研究计划。该小组在Tevatron的D0实验中都有超过15年的经验。他们的工作重点是为实验提供高质量的数据：满足使用全套物理对象工具触发的三级规范；监控数据质量，特别是新代码发布所带来的变化；完成了对D0亮度归一化的重大重估。随着大型强子对撞机向CMS的过渡开始，D0实验显然仍然是该小组的主要关注点。首席研究员也领导着宇宙射线天文台项目CROP，这是一个全州范围内的推广项目，包括内布拉斯加州的高中，利用芝加哥风淋阵列的退役探测器，研究扩展的宇宙射线空气阵雨，同时也领导着皮埃尔·奥格宇宙射线实验的推广。

Harron Colliders at Fermilab (The Tevatron) and CERN (The LHC) are expected to be productive tools to explore high mass scales (The Terascale) in the near future. This proposal requests continued support for the frontier collider-physics research program of the Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). The group has over 15 years experience each in the D0 Experiment at the Tevatron. Their work has focused on providing quality data to the experiment: meeting the Level-3 specifications for triggering with a full suite of physics object tools; monitoring data quality and, in particular, the changes introduced by new code releases; and a completing a major reevaluation of the normalization of D0's luminosity. The D0 experiment clearly remains a primary focus for the group, as transition to CMS at the LHC begins,.The Principal Investigators also lead CROP, the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project CROP is a statewide outreach effort to involve Nebraska high schools in the study of extended cosmic-ray air showers, using retired detectors from the Chicago Air Shower Array, as well as leading outreach for the Pierre Auger cosmic ray experiment.