CAREER: Heavy Flavor Physics with the CDF Detector and Saturday Physics Honors Statewide

职业生涯：使用 CDF 探测器进行重味物理学和全州范围内的周六物理学荣誉

• 批准号: 0349179
• 负责人: Kevin Pitts
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0349179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Heavy; Flavor; Physics; CDF

This CAREER proposal is a request for funding to work on the CDF Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron where the two heaviest quarks, the bottom quark and top quark, were discovered. The Principal Investigator proposes a program that will produce new measurements of the properties of these heavy quarks. Such measurements will undoubtedly lead to an improved understanding of nature at its most fundamental level. Although the physics program emphasizes precision measurements of the heavy quarks, the work performed as part of this project will be crucial to many aspects of the CDF physics program, including the search for the Higgs boson and new physics through Supersymmetry. Specifically, the PI proposes to construct an upgrade to the CDF trigger system, referred to as the eXtremely Fast Tracker (XFT), which will improve the experiment's ability to select which events to keep for subsequent analysis by efficiently finding the charged tracks produced in every proton-antiproton interaction. Charged track information is crucial to the CDF physics program and hundreds of different physics analyses rely heavily upon the very efficient operation of the XFT system. The PI proposes to expand the existing physics outreach program at the University of Illinois, known as the Saturday Physics Honors Program. This program provides physics presentations for the public during selected Saturdays in the fall. The production of DVD copies of the lectures, and the distribution to high school teachers, will provide an opportunity for students across the state to view and learn about cutting edge research and will permit a direct connection between research physicists and high school science teachers.

这项职业建议是要求资金在Fermilab Tevatron上使用CDF探测器的要求，其中发现了两个最重的夸克，即底部的夸克和顶级夸克。 主要研究人员提出了一个计划，该计划将对这些重夸克的性质进行新的测量。这样的测量无疑将在最基本的水平上提高对自然的理解。尽管物理学计划强调了重夸克的精确度量，但作为该项目的一部分执行的工作对于CDF物理计划的许多方面至关重要，包括通过超对称搜索Higgs Boson和新物理学。 具体而言，PI提议构建对CDF触发系统的升级，称为非常快速的跟踪器（XFT），这将提高实验的能力，通过有效地查找每个在每个中产生的带电的跟踪来选择哪些事件进行后续分析，以进行后续分析。质子 - 抗蛋白酶相互作用。带电的轨道信息对于CDF物理计划至关重要，数百种不同的物理分析在很大程度上取决于XFT系统的非常有效的操作。 PI建议扩大伊利诺伊大学的现有物理外展计划，称为《星期六物理荣誉计划》。该计划在秋季选定的星期六为公众提供物理演示。演讲的DVD副本以及向高中教师分发的生产将为全州的学生提供一个机会，以了解和了解尖端研究，并允许研究物理学家与高中科学教师之间的直接联系。