Support for The Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) 2014 Conference held at Columbia University, New York, NY, June 2 -7, 2014

该奖项为一系列关于大型强子对撞机或与之相关的物理学国际会议中的第二次会议提供支持。大型强子对撞机（LHC）是在瑞士日内瓦附近的欧洲核子研究中心实验室运行的首要能量前沿粒子加速器。大型强子对撞机将质子束（一种被称为强子的粒子）加速到目前世界上可达到的最高能量。通过对撞这些粒子束，大型强子对撞机可以产生早期宇宙中存在的粒子，比如2012年由欧洲核子研究中心ATLAS和CMS的两个大型实验发现的希格斯玻色子。LHCP系列会议重点介绍了LHC和Tevatron对撞机（在费米国家加速器实验室）实验的实验结果以及相关的理论发展。会议将在哥伦比亚大学举行。会议计划将对强子对撞机物理学的最新实验和理论结果进行回顾，并对未来几年的前景进行讨论。会议旨在为实验者和理论家提供一个论坛，就标准模型物理及超越、希格斯玻色子、超对称和重离子物理等主题进行热烈讨论。大型强子对撞机的高亮度升级计划也包括在内。该奖项为100名学生参加大型强子对撞机物理会议提供部分支持，这将使年轻的美国科学家能够在国际环境中展示他们自己的研究。这也将使他们能够就大型强子对撞机的最新研究方向交换意见。

This award provides support for the second in a series of international conferences on Physics coming out of, or relevant to, the Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the premier Energy Frontier particle accelerator operating at the CERN laboratory near Geneva Switzerland. The LHC accelerates beams of protons (a type of particle known as a hadron) to the highest energies currently attainable in the world. By colliding these beams, the LHC can create particles that were present in the early universe, such as the Higgs Boson which was discovered in 2012 by the two large experiments at CERN, ATLAS and CMS.The LHCP conference series highlights experimental results from the LHC and Tevatron collider (at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) experiments along with related theoretical developments. The conference will be held at Columbia University. The conference program will be devoted to a review of the latest experimental and theoretical results on hadron collider physics and a discussion on the outlook for the coming years. The conference intends to provide a forum for lively discussions between experimenters and theorists on topics such as the Standard Model Physics and Beyond, the Higgs Boson, Supersymmetry and Heavy Ion Physics. Planning for the LHC high luminosity upgrades is also included. This award provides partial support for the attendance of 100 students to the LHC Physics Conference and this support will enable young U.S. scientists to present their own research in an international setting. It will also allow them to exchange ideas on the latest research directions at the Large Hadron Collider.