The U.S. ATLAS Research Program: Empowering U.S. Universities for Discoveries at the Energy Frontier

美国 ATLAS 研究计划：增强美国大学在能源前沿的发现能力

• 批准号: 0301292
• 负责人: P. Michael Tuts
• 金额: $ 4125.29万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0301292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; ATLAS; Research; Program; Empowering

This proposal from Columbia University requests support for the U.S. ATLAS Research Program. The ATLAS detector is currently under construction for operation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland with initial data taking scheduled for 2007. The U.S. ATLAS Program aims at providing U.S. university scientists, teams of faculty, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, with the opportunity to maximize the science from the LHC accelerator. The goal of the Program is to provide a broad based understanding of the physical origin of mass, and how it relates to our other concepts about the material universe. The new particles that may well be found at the LHC are important not only for extending unknown dimensions of the physics of elementary particles, but also for understanding key issues in cosmology. Answers to these questions would provide a major advance toward completing a unified view of the particles in nature, the forces with which particles interact, and their role in the past and future of our universe. This is a time when there are unusually compelling indications that the step taken by the LHC, leading to collision energies far beyond those available at existing facilities, will lead to especially important discoveries with implications over a broad field of fundamental science. This proposal rests on the especially strong scientific case for investigating this new energy regime and benefits from a program in which the international community is providing a major part of the investment. The Research Program will include the technical effort associated with maintenance and operation of the detector. A second element of the program is in the area of information technology, software and computing, which will play a crucial role in allowing scientists at U.S. universities to fully exploit the potential of the LHC. The program also includes R&D for detector upgrades, which will be needed to maximize the physics output during the long period of running expected for the LHC. The NSF-ATLAS groups continue to expand their education and outreach programs, with a particular focus on high school teachers and students (closely coordinated with QuarkNet), and on outreach to traditionally under-represented populations. The U.S. ATLAS group plans on strengthening and expanding their outreach efforts in the run-up to ATLAS data taking and, in this proposal, they describe some ideas for extending their program reach beyond the U.S.

哥伦比亚大学的这一提议要求为美国地图集研究计划提供支持。 目前，ATLAS探测器正在瑞士日内瓦市Cern的大型强子官方（LHC）进行运营，并计划于2007年获得最初的数据。 该计划的目的是对质量的物理起源及其与我们对物质宇宙的其他概念的关系提供广泛的理解。 可以在LHC上发现的新粒子不仅对于扩展基本颗粒物理学的未知维度，而且对于理解宇宙学的关键问题而言很重要。 这些问题的答案将为完成自然界中粒子的统一观点，粒子相互作用的力量以及它们在我们宇宙的过去和未来中的作用提供重大进步。 这是有一个异常令人信服的迹象表明，LHC采取的步骤远远超出了现有设施的碰撞能量，这将导致特别重要的发现，对广泛的基本科学领域产生影响。该提案基于一个特别强大的科学案例，用于调查这种新的能源制度，并从国际社会提供主要投资部分的计划中受益。 该研究计划将包括与检测器的维护和操作相关的技术工作。 该计划的第二个要素是信息技术，软件和计算领域，该领域将在允许美国大学的科学家充分利用LHC的潜力方面发挥至关重要的作用。 该程序还包括用于检测器升级的研发，需要在LHC期望的长期运行期间最大化物理输出。 NSF-ATLAS团体继续扩大他们的教育和外展计划，特别关注高中教师和学生（与Quarknet密切协调），并与传统上代表性不足的人群进行宣传。 美国Atlas集团计划加强和扩大其在Atlas数据获取的启动方面的推广工作，并在此提案中描述了一些将计划扩展到美国以外的想法