CAREER: Understanding Particle Masses through Studying Higgs Produced in Association with Top Quarks at CMS

有了这个奖项，兰农教授将继续执行一个五年计划，研究与顶级夸克对相关的希格斯玻色子的产生。最初的工作将用于在瑞士日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机(LHC)上使用紧凑型Muon螺线管(CMS)探测器测量顶对产生截面，随后将研究顶对加喷注的产生。最终，他希望能进一步研究与顶端配对产生的希格斯。为了推进这一长期研究目标，该奖项包括支持旨在升级CMS触发器的研究和开发活动，以添加来自跟踪系统的当前未在触发器中使用的信息。最后，这一奖项允许兰农教授利用与他的研究相关的独特教育活动。CMS的合作已同意将其收集的一小部分数据提供给QuarkNet，QuarkNet是一个涉及高中生和教师的高能物理研究外展项目。与巴黎圣母院的一位同事一起，Lannon计划为QuarkNet触发器收集的数据创建必要的基础设施，供QuarkNet参与者使用。实现这一目标将创建一个长期的基础设施，允许高中生和教师分享从事尖端高能物理研究的经验。未来可以通过使用基于网络的学习和协作工具，将这种体验带给所有背景、经济状况和地理位置的学生，从而构建这一基础设施。

With this award, Professor Lannon will pursue a five-year plan to study the production of the Higgs boson in association with top quark pairs. Initial efforts will be directed toward the measurement of top pair production cross sections using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, followed by studies on top pair plus jets production. Ultimately, he hopes to progress to a study of Higgs produced with a top pair. To further this long-term research goal, this award includes support for research and development activities aimed at upgrading the CMS trigger to add information from the tracking system that is not currently used in the trigger. Finally, this award allows Professor Lannon to take advantage of a unique educational activity related to his research. The CMS collaboration has agreed to make a small fraction of the data it collects available to QuarkNet, an outreach program in high energy physics research involving high school students and teachers. Along with a colleague at Notre Dame, Lannon plans to create the necessary infrastructure for data collected by the QuarkNet trigger to be used by QuarkNet participants. Achieving this goal would create a long-term infrastructure that would allow high school students and teachers to share in the experience of doing cutting-edge high energy physics research. This infrastructure can be built upon by future efforts to bring this experience to students of all backgrounds, economic situations, and geographical locations through the use of web-based learning and collaboration tools.