RUI: Construction, Testing, Installation, and Commissioning of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger T0+ detector

该奖项支持PI和她的学生在ALICE实验上的合作，以研究在CERN大型强子对撞机的核碰撞中产生的夸克和胶子的热稠密等离子体的行为。 这种核物质成分的等离子体模拟了大爆炸后不久早期宇宙的条件，并允许科学家通过检测等离子体膨胀和冷却时发射的数千个亚原子粒子来研究其性质和演化。 在接下来的几年里，随着LHC加速器的升级，该小组将分析这些重离子碰撞的数据，并为ALICE建造新的仪器，以利用碰撞率的大幅增加。 这将使ALICE能够对这些碰撞中发生的由强核力控制的相互作用进行更精确和全面的测量。 PI所在机构的本科生将帮助设计、构建、测试、安装和调试ALICE快速交互触发探测器的T0+组件。 该探测器对于实现ALICE的目标至关重要，因为它提供了所有ALICE测量所依赖的最小偏置触发、多重性触发、束气事件拒绝、碰撞开始时间、离线多重性和事件平面确定。 学生将接受先进的光子传感器探测器技术的培训，并与科学家和工程师的国际合作参与科学发现的过程。 他们将从PI的机构毕业，更好地准备面对广泛领域的挑战性问题，包括教育，基础研究和技术开发。与ALICE的合作将使该集团能够继续招募和留住学生，他们将成为明天的领导者和创新者。 该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

This award supports the PI and her students in their collaboration on the ALICE experiment to investigate the behavior of the hot dense plasma of quarks and gluons created in the collisions of nuclei at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. This plasma of nuclear matter constituents mimics the conditions in the early Universe shortly after the Big Bang and allows scientists to study its properties and evolution via the detection of thousands of subatomic particles emitted as the plasma expands and cools. Over the next several years, as the LHC accelerator is upgraded, the group will analyze data from those heavy ion collisions and build new instrumentation for ALICE to take advantage of the substantial increase in collision rates. This will enable ALICE to make more precise and comprehensive measurements of the interactions, governed by the strong nuclear force, that occur in these collisions. Undergraduate students at the PI's institution will help design, build, test, install, and commission the T0+ component of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger detector. This detector is crucial to accomplishing the goals of the ALICE, as it provides the minimum bias trigger, multiplicity trigger, beam-gas event rejection, collision start time, offline multiplicity, and event plane determination upon which all ALICE measurements depend. The students will be trained in the state of the art of advanced photon-sensor detector technology and take part in the process of scientific discovery with an international collaboration of scientists and engineers. They will graduate from the PI's institution better prepared to confront challenging problems in a broad array of fields, including education, fundamental research, and technology development. This partnership with ALICE will allow the group to continue to recruit and retain students who will become tomorrow's leaders and innovators. This award is co-funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering.