Studies in Elementary Particle Physics

这是一个被提议的研究项目，最终可能会对宇宙中占主导地位的物质的起源提供新的见解，并可能有助于我们对质量起源的理解。所提出的研究计划的影响在基本粒子物理学中达到了广泛的范围。本文提出的有源像素探测器技术在同步加速器光源上用于研究材料和生物系统的仪器中具有应用价值。提议的分布式数据库工作与约翰霍普金斯大学的同事在几个大型天文学项目中所做的工作有很大的重叠。网格计算方面的专业知识正被用于促进开放科学网格（OSG）上的生物分子动力学模拟，并为OSG上生命科学的扩展铺平了道路。拟议的研究也有教育成分。它为一些研究生和本科生提供直接支持和培训。该小组是QuarkNet中心的主人，该中心目前有13名巴尔的摩地区的高中教师。这个QuarkNet中心发起并帮助组织了一系列非常成功的区域物理博览会，将科学带给了成千上万的地区居民。quarknet相关的教师和他们的学生也开始参加一系列的国际大师班，丰富了来自世界各地的高中生的教育经验。

This is a proposed program of studies that may eventually give new insight into the origin of the matter dominance of the universe and is likely to contribute to our understanding of the origin of mass. The impact of the proposed research program reaches a broad scope within elementary particle physics. The proposed work on active pixel detector technology has application to instrumentation used at synchrotron light sources to study materials and biological systems. The proposed work on distributed databases has strong overlap with work being done by Johnd Hopkins colleagues for several large astronomy projects. Expertise in grid computing is being used to facilitate biological Molecular Dynamics simulations on the Open Science Grid (OSG) and is paving the way for an expanded presence of the life sciences on the OSG. The proposed research also has an educational component. It provides direct support and training for a number of graduate and undergraduate students. The group are the hosts of a QuarkNet center which has a current membership of 13 Baltimore area high school teachers. This QuarkNet Center has initiated and helped to organize a very successful series of regional Physics Fairs that have brought science to thousands of area residents. Quarknet-aliated teachers and their students have also begun to participate in a series of International Masterclasses that are enriching the educational experiences of high school students from around the world.