CAREER: New Physics Searches in Top Pairs and Jets Channels, Silicon Pixel Operations at CMS and Particle Physics Outreach with Spark Chamber Stations

职业：顶对和射流通道中的新物理搜索、CMS 的硅像素操作以及火花室站的粒子物理推广

• 批准号: 0748054
• 负责人: Eva Halkiadakis
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0748054&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; New; Physics; Searches; Top

PROPOSAL NUMBER: 0748054INSTITUTION: Rutgers University New BrunswickNSF PROGRAM: PHY ? ELEMENTARY PARTICLE ACCEL USERPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Halkiadakis, EvaTITLE: CAREER: New Physics Searches in Top Pairs and Jets Channels, Silicon Pixel Operations at CMS and Particle Physics Outreach with Spark Chamber StationsThis proposal requests partial support for a program of research in experimental elementary particle physics based primarily on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and for an education and outreach program involving high school teachers and pre-college women students.For the past few decades, physicists have been able to describe with increasing detail the fundamental particles that make up the Universe and the interactions between them. Much of this success has been due to the Tevatron program at Fermilab with D0 and CDF making major contributions.. Professor Halkiadakis has been a major participant in the physics analysis for the CDF experiment, particularly in top physics, as well as in many leadership roles. Now the LHC and CMS will start operation in new regimes of energy and luminosity holding even greater promise for discoveries and measurements leading to revisions of our views on how the world is constructed and the nature of the laws that govern its operation. Professor Halkiadakis is now transitioning into the CMS program where she will parlay her wealth of experience in top analysis into a study of top pair production at CMS for new physics searches. With the Rutgers group making significant contributions to the CMS pixel detector and the pivotal role the detector plays in identifying b-quarks, Professor Halkiadakis also has assumed the responsibility for developing major portions of the pixel data quality monitoring (DQM) system. In addition, she plans to expand her searches to involve jets as a complimentary program to a study of decay signatures with leptons or missing momentum. On Broader Impacts, she plans to use cosmic ray muons to bring particle physics to the public. The objective is to set up an experiment to test Einstein?s special theory of relativity and to demonstrate that high energy particles surround us. This project will be assembled by local high school teachers and pre-college women students from the Rutgers Douglass Project. Together with the PI, they will build particle physics detectors to measure the number of cosmic ray muons observed at different altitudes and study the effect of time dilation. The results of the experiment will be seen ?in action? via web-based displays at their schools, and exhibited in science museums around the state of New Jersey, such as at the Liberty Science Center.

提案编号：0748054Institution：Rutgers University New Brunswicknsf计划：PHY？ ELEMENTARY PARTICLE ACCEL USERPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Halkiadakis, EvaTITLE: CAREER: New Physics Searches in Top Pairs and Jets Channels, Silicon Pixel Operations at CMS and Particle Physics Outreach with Spark Chamber StationsThis proposal requests partial support for a program of research in experimental elementary particle physics based primarily on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and for an education and outreach program涉及高中教师和大学前女学生。在过去的几十年中，物理学家能够越来越多地描述构成宇宙及其之间相互作用的基本颗粒。这项成功的很大程度上是由于Fermilab的Tevatron计划与D0和CDF做出了重大贡献。Halkiadakis教授一直是CDF实验物理分析的主要参与者，尤其是在顶级物理学以及许多领导角色。 现在，LHC和CMS将开始在新的能源和发光制度中运作，对发现和测量的更大希望，从而修改我们对世界的建设方式以及管理其运营的法律的性质。 Halkiadakis教授现在正在过渡到CMS计划，在那里她将自己的丰富经验在顶级分析中进行研究，以研究CMS在CMS上进行新物理搜索的研究。随着Rutgers小组为CMS像素探测器做出了重大贡献，并且该探测器在识别B Quarks中的关键作用，Halkiadakis教授还承担了开发像素数据质量监测（DQM）系统的主要部分的责任。 此外，她计划将自己的搜索扩展到将喷气机作为一种免费计划涉及的搜索，以研究与瘦素或失踪势头的衰减签名的研究。 在更广泛的影响下，她计划使用宇宙射线Muons将粒子物理学带给公众。目的是建立一个实验，以测试爱因斯坦的相对论特殊理论，并证明高能量颗粒围绕着我们。该项目将由当地的高中老师和罗格斯·道格拉斯项目的大学预科女学生组成。它们将与PI一起构建粒子物理探测器，以测量在不同高度下观察到的宇宙射线MUON的数量，并研究时间扩张的效果。实验的结果会被看到吗？通过基于Web的学校展示，并在新泽西州附近的科学博物馆中展出，例如自由科学中心。