MRI-R2 Consortium: Development of the U.S. ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) for the Analysis of Data from the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

MRI-R2联盟：开发美国ATLAS物理分析仪器（APAI），用于分析大型强子对撞机ATLAS实验数据

• 批准号: 0959141
• 负责人: Yongsheng Gao
• 金额: $ 62万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0959141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Consortium; Development; U.S.; MRI; R2; Consortium; Development; U.S.

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Particle physics stands at the threshold of a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins colliding-beam operations. With the highest-energy collisions ever created in a laboratory environment, the CMS collaboration (about 1600 physicists world-wide) will study some of the most fundamental questions of our time, such as the origin of mass, the possible existence of supersymmetry, and the hypothetical existence of extra spatial dimensions. This award allows nine universities (University of Chicago, Columbia University, California State University at Fresno(lead institute), Hampton University, New York University, Northern Illinois University, Michigan State University, Stony Brook University, and the University of Washington) to develop and build the U.S. ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) which is envisioned as a distributed computing facility comprised of a shared array of university-based dedicated analysis computers utilizing the Open Science Grid infrastructure. The APAI will provide a unique opportunity for university faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students to participate and make transformative discoveries in experimental particle physics using data from the ATLAS experiment.This award provides the means for the consortium institutions to enhance their prestige and compete at an international level. The cutting edge research to be performed at the LHC has the potential to re-invigorate the interest of undergraduates in science. The APAI offers a unique tool to integrate educational opportunities for undergraduates with some of the most exciting and compelling scientific research being done today. Some members of this consortium have a tradition of serving underrepresented groups, African Americans, Hispanics, and "first-generation" college students, thus one expects the compelling nature of the research being proposed will allow them to attract these underrepresented students. Furthermore, the APAI represents a transformational way of viewing and using distributed clusters and could lead to significant improvements in the way large collaborations approach physics analyses.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国回收与再投资法》（公共法律111-5）资助的。随着大型强子对撞机（LHC）开始碰撞式灯泡操作，粒子物理学处于发现的新时代的门槛。随着有史以来在实验室环境中造成的最高能量碰撞，CMS的合作（大约1600位物理学家在全球范围内）将研究我们时代中一些最根本的问题，例如质量的起源，超对称性的可能存在以及额外的空间维度的假设存在。该奖项允许九所大学（芝加哥大学，哥伦比亚大学，加利福尼亚州立大学（领线研究所），汉普顿大学，纽约大学，北部伊利诺伊大学，密歇根州立大学，布鲁克大学，斯托尼布鲁克大学和华盛顿大学）开发和构建了美国ATLAS物理学分析工具（APAI），该计算是一家设备的计算，该计算是一家设备的计算，该计算是一家设备的计算，该计算是一家设备的范围。开放科学网格基础设施。 APAI将为大学教师，博士后研究人员，研究生和本科生提供一个独特的机会，以使用Atlas实验中的数据参与实验粒子物理学的变革性发现。这项奖项为联盟机构提供了增强其Prestige和在国际水平竞争的联盟机构的手段。在LHC上进行的尖端研究有可能重新激发科学本科生的利益。 APAI提供了一种独特的工具，可以将本科生的教育机会与当今最令人兴奋，最引人注目的科学研究相结合。该财团的一些成员具有为代表性不足的团体，非裔美国人，西班牙裔和“第一代”大学生服务的传统，因此人们期望提出的研究的引人注目的性质使他们能够吸引这些代表性不足的学生。此外，APAI代表了一种转变的查看和使用分布式群集的方式，并可能导致大型协作方法方法的物理分析的方式显着改善。