CAREER: Search for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC

该项目支持伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)的一项职业计划，该计划旨在利用紧凑型Muon螺线管(CMS)实验，在CERN大型强子对撞机(LHC)上搜索可能新的基态相互作用产生的暗物质的特征。大质量暗物质粒子的一个关键特征是它不留痕迹地逃脱探测器，导致明显的巨大横向动量不平衡。这个项目的独特贡献是在大的横向动量缺失的事件中对高度增强的强子衰变粒子进行一般性的、包罗万象的搜索，产生了看起来很有趣的喷流，无论是重增强粒子(TOP、W、Z)还是轻颜色单重态增强粒子(类轴子粒子)，在可能的新的重的、成对产生的有色粒子的级联衰变链中发射。这项计划有可能阐明暗物质的起源，并可能在寻找大型强子对撞机新现象方面开辟新的天地。更广泛的影响针对芝加哥地区的高中，这些学校使用亚利桑那大学开发的主动发现教学模式，被称为“建模物理”，以及芝加哥市中心的学校没有使用“建模物理”方法。与UIC教育学院的中学科学教育认证计划一起，将在“建模物理”方法中制定教学计划，使高中教师能够将来自大型强子对撞机的粒子物理的一些最新和最令人兴奋的科学发展纳入他们的课堂。

This project supports a CAREER program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to search for signatures of dark matter produced by possible new fundamental interactions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment. A key signature of a massive dark matter particle is that it escapes the detector without a trace, causing an apparent large transverse momentum imbalance. The unique contribution of this project is a generic, inclusive search for highly boosted hadronically decaying particles in events with large missing transverse momentum, giving rise to "funny-looking" jets, be they heavy boosted particles (top's, W's, Z's) or light color-singlet boosted particles (axion-like particles), emitted in the cascade decay chains of possible new heavy, pair-produced colored particles. This plan has the potential to shed light on the origin of dark matter and could break new ground in the search for new phenomena at the LHC. The broader impacts are directed toward high schools in Chicago area, which use an active discovery format of teaching developed at the University of Arizona, known as "Modeling Physics", as well as inner city Chicago schools not using the "Modeling Physics" method. Together with the UIC College of Education's certification program in secondary science education, lesson plans will be developed within the "Modeling Physics" methodology that enable high school teachers to incorporate some of the latest and most exciting scientific developments of particle physics coming from the LHC into their classrooms.