Elementary Particle Physics with CMS and FOCUS

使用 CMS 和 FOCUS 进行基本粒子物理

基本信息

批准号：
0600694
负责人：
Paul Sheldon
金额：
$ 90万
依托单位：
Vanderbilt University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-04-01 至 2009-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0600694&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Elementary Particle Physics CMS FOCUS

项目摘要

The Vanderbilt High Energy Group has been involved with three experimental programs: at Fermilab, the study of production and decay of charm and beauty particles (FOCUS and BTeV experiments); at CERN, the study of physics at the energy frontier (the CMS experiment). With considerable experimental expertise developed by the group in the course of the FOCUS and BTeV efforts, for example in such areas as databases and development of fault tolerant electronic triggering, the group is now making significant contributions to CMS in the areas of charged particle tracking and trigger and data acquisition. The CMS experiment will come on line for data taking during the course of this award. In parallel, the group continues to analyze data from FOCUS, which has provided a prolific and significant body of knowledge of charm particles to the scientific community; including measurements of charm particle photoproduction, branching ratios for charm particle decays and charm particle lifetimes. In the area of broader impacts, the group has made significant contributions to Grid Computing and cyberinfrastructure - leading the Vanderbilt campus computing initiative ACCRE and through participation in the national virtual organization Open Science Grid, through research and training in physics and computer science for graduate and undergraduate students, and in education and outreach for high school teachers and students through QuarkNet.

范德比尔特高能小组参与了三个实验项目：在费米实验室，研究魅力和美丽粒子的产生和衰变（FOCUS 和 BTeV 实验）；在 CERN，能源前沿物理学研究（CMS 实验）。凭借该小组在 FOCUS 和 BTeV 工作过程中开发的大量实验专业知识，例如在数据库和容错电子触发开发等领域，该小组现在在带电粒子跟踪和容错领域为 CMS 做出了重大贡献。触发和数据采集。 CMS 实验将在本次颁奖期间上线进行数据采集。与此同时，该小组继续分析 FOCUS 的数据，该数据为科学界提供了丰富且重要的魅力粒子知识体系；包括魅力粒子光生成、魅力粒子衰变的分支比和魅力粒子寿命的测量。在影响更广泛的领域，该小组为网格计算和网络基础设施做出了重大贡献 - 领导范德比尔特校园计算计划 ACCRE，并通过参与国家虚拟组织开放科学网格，为研究生和计算机科学领域的研究和培训。本科生，以及通过 QuarkNet 为高中教师和学生提供教育和外展服务。