Research in Collider Physics

该奖项将为圣母大学高能物理组提供三年的支持，以继续探索基于加速器的能量前沿实验，特别是费米实验室的D0实验和瑞士日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机(LHC)的致密Muon螺线管(CMS)实验。除了广泛的硬件贡献和探测器的调试和操作，巴黎圣母院计划的物理目标是广泛的，将利用现有的数据来研究顶级物理，电弱玻色子W和Z，QCD过程，并寻找电弱对称破缺和其他新现象的证据。教育目标不仅是培养博士后研究人员、研究生和本科生成为粒子物理专业人员，而且还做出重大努力，让非传统参与者、高中教师和高中生参与科学前沿的身临其境的研究体验。该奖项将为创新的外展活动提供支持，并使巴黎圣母院集团保持其在外展项目中的领导地位。它是领导QuarkNet项目的四个机构之一，主办了解宇宙互动(I2U2)项目的教育领导者之一，并为USCMS教育和外联协调员提供支持。

This award will provide three year support for the University of Notre Dame High Energy Physics Group to continue its exploration of the energy frontier with accelerator-based experiments, particularly the D0 experiment at Fermilab and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Besides extensive hardware contributions and detector commissioning and operations, the physics objectives of the Notre Dame program are broad and will exploit the available data to study top physics, electroweak bosons W and Z, QCD processes, and to search for evidence of electroweak symmetry breaking and other new phenomena. The educational objectives are not only to train postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students to be particle physics professionals but, in addition, to make significant efforts to engage non-traditional participants, high school teachers and high school students, in immersive research experiences at the scientific frontier. This award will provide support for innovative outreach activities and allow the Notre Dame group to maintain its leadership in outreach programs. It is one of the four institutions leading the QuarkNet project, hosts one of the Education Leaders in the Interactions In Understanding the Universe (I2U2) project, and provides support for the USCMS Education and Outreach Coordinator.