Web-Based High-Energy Particle Physics Event Generation

该奖项资助伊利诺斯大学的Tim Stelzer教授的研究活动。经过近20年的规划和建设，大型强子对撞机（LHC）现在是世界上能量最高的粒子对撞机。来自大型强子对撞机的数据很可能会为下一代粒子物理学家带来一个新的“标准模型”，描述物质的基本组成部分以及它们在更高能量尺度上的相互作用。在他的研究中，Stelzer教授的目标是开发方法来提高在大型强子对撞机上测试超越标准模型的新理论的效率。这类新理论包括那些标准模型的对称性被所谓的“超对称性”所增强的理论，这种“超对称性”将不同自旋的粒子相互联系起来。通常情况下，一旦一个新理论被确定为有趣的理论，一个研究小组可能需要一年或更长时间才能完成必要的计算，以确定如何在大型强子对撞机上验证这个理论。该奖项开发和实施的方法旨在将这一时间从几年缩短到几天，随着LHC数据的收集，可以研究的新物理的范围大大增加。该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。Stelzer教授将让研究生和博士后参与他的研究，从而为在该领域开始研究的初级物理学家提供重要的培训。他还打算就他的研究成果进行公开讲座，并根据LHC的结果为本科生开发新的学习材料。

This award funds the research activities of Professor Tim Stelzer at the University of Illinois. After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now the highest-energy particle collider in the world. Data from the LHC is likely to lead to nothing less than a new "Standard Model" for the next generation of particle physicists, describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions at an even higher energy scale. In his research, Professor Stelzer aims to develop methods to improve the efficiency by which new theories beyond the Standard Model might be tested at the LHC. This class of new theories includes those in which the symmetries of the Standard Model are augmented by a so-called "supersymmetry" relating particles of different spins to each other. Typically, once a new theory has been identified as interesting, it may take a team of researchers a year or more to complete the calculations necessary to determine how this theory could be tested at the LHC. Methods developed and implemented by this award aim to reduce that time from years to days, dramatically increasing the range of new physics that can be studied as the LHC data is collected.This project will also have significant broader impacts. Professor Stelzer will involve graduate students and postdocs in his research, and thereby provide critical training to junior physicists beginning research in this field. He also intends to give public lectures on his research results, and develop new learning materials for undergraduate students based on results from the LHC.