Physics at the LHC with CMS

大型强子对撞机 (LHC) 的物理与 CMS

• 批准号: 0855651
• 负责人: Paul Sheldon
• 金额: $ 96万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855651&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physics; LHC; CMS

This award provides continuing support for a program of research for the High Energy Physics group at Vanderbilt University. This group proposes to exploit the rich particle physics program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as members of the CMS experiment. Since joining CMS in 2005, its established expertise in electronics and silicon detectors, along with a long term interest in computing and information technology, has enabled the members to make significant contributions on the pixel tracker project and in Software and Computing, respectively. They have also recently begun to contribute to Super-LHC design studies as well as developing a physics analysis effort. On the pixel tracker, they provide leadership in the operations and development of the Front End Digitizer (FED), and have recently assumed a leadership role for the pixel slow controls. For the software and computing project on CMS, their efforts are to develop computing resources and grid infrastructure. Their successful establishment of the ACCRE computing center at Vanderbilt and the NSF funded REDDnet project are directly applicable to this effort. Finally, they are contributing to design studies for the SLHC, studying the effectiveness of various proposals to incorporate the pixel tracker into the first level of the CMS trigger. In terms of broader impact, their collaborative efforts with computer scientists are breaking new ground in the area of data logistics. REDDnet is serving researchers from a wide variety of application domains, including the geospatial imaging community, digital archive projects in the Library of Congress, the fusion community, and high energy physics. Emphasis is placed on involving undergraduate students in their research program and reaching out to the community through the QuarkNet project.

该奖项为范德比尔特大学高能物理小组的研究计划提供持续支持。该小组提议利用大型强子对撞机 (LHC) 的丰富粒子物理程序作为 CMS 实验的成员。自 2005 年加入 CMS 以来，其在电子和硅探测器方面积累的专业知识，以及对计算和信息技术的长期兴趣，使成员能够分别在像素跟踪器项目以及软件和计算方面做出重大贡献。他们最近还开始为超级大型强子对撞机的设计研究以及物理分析工作做出贡献。在像素跟踪器方面，他们在前端数字化仪 (FED) 的运营和开发方面发挥着领导作用，并且最近在像素慢速控制方面发挥了领导作用。对于CMS上的软件和计算项目，他们的努力是开发计算资源和网格基础设施。他们在范德比尔特成功建立的 ACCRE 计算中心和 NSF 资助的 REDDnet 项目都直接适用于这项工作。最后，他们正在为 SLHC 的设计研究做出贡献，研究将像素跟踪器纳入 CMS 触发器第一级的各种建议的有效性。就更广泛的影响而言，他们与计算机科学家的合作正在数据物流领域开辟新天地。 REDDnet 为来自各个应用领域的研究人员提供服务，包括地理空间成像社区、国会图书馆的数字档案项目、聚变社区和高能物理学。重点是让本科生参与他们的研究项目，并通过 QuarkNet 项目接触社区。