CAREER: Theoretical Interpretation of the Large Hadron Collider Data

在接下来的几年里，欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机(LHC)的实验将首次直接探测电弱尺度。大型强子对撞机的数据肯定会在我们对这种规模的物理学的理解上引发巨大的进步。大型强子对撞机时代的皮？S研究的主要目标将是通过提供数据的理论解释来促进这一进展。他的研究将是数据驱动的。这些项目包括理解可能性的空间？为了新的物理学。他目前的一些努力将集中在构建和分析候选模型上。他的研究将涉及理解哪些观测数据可以用来区分各种拟议的模型，以及一旦建立了正确的模型，就确定其参数。PI研究了与各种新的物理场景相关的对撞机现象学，包括超对称性、额外维度的模型、小希格斯模型和无希格斯模型。他目前的建议包括这一领域的几个新项目，包括研究能够提供S超对称模型顶部扇区参数的独特测量的新的可观测性；描述兰德尔-桑德鲁姆模型中的Regge态并分析其大型强子对撞机签名的新的现象学框架；以及大型强子对撞机区分具有类似签名的模型的能力的测试案例分析，例如超对称和具有T宇称的小希格斯。就更广泛的影响和宣传而言，国际和平研究所建议为受经济和地理因素不利影响的纽约州北部农村地区的科学教师举办专业发展讲习班。与康奈尔初级粒子物理实验室(Lepp)的全职外联协调员Lora Hine合作，PI打算组织为期一天的专业发展讲习班，将这些地区的K-12科学教师带到康奈尔校园。研讨会将包括参观CESR或其他科学设施，康奈尔大学科学家(包括PI)的演讲，以及帮助教师制定教案的会议。该项目将使用勒普现有的广泛的外联基础设施。此外，专责小组亦会跟进探访学校，观察和评估教师在课堂上使用教材和教案的情况，并在有需要时为教师提供额外支援。PI参与的第二个领域是通过转让最初为粒子物理开发的技术来教育公众关于粒子物理正在对社会产生的影响。国际和平协会希望记录已知的技术转移例子的历史，并希望解释粒子物理研究的独特环境是如何使这些进展成为可能的。国际和平研究所还作为导师和讲师参与了莱普大学本科生研究经验(REU)计划。该项目很大一部分学生来自小型文理学院和其他几乎没有研究机会的机构。

In the next few years, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will for the first time probe the electroweak scale directly. The LHC data will certainly trigger dramatic progress in our understanding of physics at this scale. The main goal of the PI?s research in the LHC era will be to contribute to this progress by providing theoretical interpretation of the data. His research will be data-driven. The projects include understanding the ?space of possibilities? for new physics. Some of his immediate efforts will be focused on building and analyzing candidate models. His research will be involves in understanding which observables can be used to discriminate between various proposed models, and, once the correct model is established, to determine its parameters. The PI has investigated collider phenomenology related to a variety of new physics scenarios, including supersymmetry, models with extra dimensions, Little Higgs models, and Higgs-less models. His present proposal includes several new projects in this area, including a study of new observables that can provide unique measurements of s-top-sector parameters in supersymmetric models; a novel phenomenological framework for describing the Regge states in Randall-Sundrum models and analyzing their LHC signatures; and a test-case analysis of the power of the LHC to discriminate between models with similar signatures, such as supersymmetry and the Little Higgs with T parity. As far as broader impacts and outreach, the PI proposes to organize professional development workshops for science teachers in rural upstate New York areas which are adversely affected by economic and geographic factors. In collaboration with Lora Hine, the full-time outreach coordinator at the Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP), the PI intends to organize one-day professional development workshops that would bring K-12 science teachers from such districts to the Cornell campus. The workshops would include tours of CESR or other scientific facilities, presentations by Cornell scientists including the PI as well as sessions to help teachers develop lesson plans. This project would use the extensive outreach infrastructure that already exists at LEPP. In addition, the PI will perform follow-up visits to schools to observeand evaluate the use of the materials and lesson plans in the classroom, and to provide additional support for the teachers as necessary. The second area, which the PI is involved in is educating the public about the impact that particle physics is making on society through transfer of technologies originally developed for particle physics. The PI hopes to document the history of the known examples of technology transfer and hopes to explain how the unique environment of particle physics research made these advances possible The PI also participates in the Research Experience for undergraduates (REU) program at LEPP both as a mentor and as a lecturer. A significant fraction of the students in this program come from small liberal-arts colleges and other institutions with few research opportunities.