Collaborative Research: S2I2: Cncp: Conceptualization of an S2I2 Institute for High Energy Physics

合作研究：S2I2：Cncp：S2I2 高能物理研究所的概念化

• 批准号: 1558219
• 负责人: Michael Sokoloff
• 金额: $ 34.46万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; S2I2; Cncp; Conceptualization

Facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN represent a huge step forward in the quest to understand the fundamental building blocks of nature, and their interactions. The discovery of the Higgs boson and the observation of very rare B meson decays, as predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, demonstrate the strong scientific reach of LHC experiments. Despite these achievements, fundamental questions remain, including: Why does nature express the symmetries embodied in the SM, and not other symmetries? Why are there exactly three generations of basic building blocks (quarks and leptons)? Why are the masses of these building blocks so different from each other, both within a generation and between generations? What is the dark matter which pervades the universe? Does space-time have additional symmetries or extend beyond the three spatial dimensions we know? Planning for upgrades for a High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) in the 2020s is well underway. These upgrades will lead to a 100-fold increase in data volume. Exploiting the increased data volume and the large investments in upgraded detectors requires a commensurate investment in software to assure that the scientific goals are achieved.The HL-LHC is expected to take data starting 10 years from now, and continue for many years. This conceptualization project will develop a Strategic Plan for an eventual S2I2 Institute which can address the software development and sustainability challenges of software for the HL-LHC era. This conceptualization project will support a series of workshops to prepare both the S2I2 Strategic Plan and, together with the international community, a Community White Paper providing an overall roadmap for both U.S. and international software efforts to realize the full science potential of the HL-LHC. This project advances the objectives of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), an effort aimed at sustaining and enhancing the U.S. scientific, technological, and economic leadership position in High-Performance Computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment.This project is supported by the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering and the Physics Division in the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机等设施代表着在探索自然基本组成部分及其相互作用方面向前迈出了一大步。正如粒子物理学标准模型 (SM) 所预测的那样，希格斯玻色子的发现和非常罕见的 B 介子衰变的观察证明了大型强子对撞机实验的强大科学影响力。尽管取得了这些成就，但基本问题仍然存在，包括：为什么大自然表现出 SM 中体现的对称性，而不是其他对称性？为什么恰好有三代基本构件（夸克和轻子）？为什么这些构建模块的质量在一代人之内和代际之间如此不同？遍布宇宙的暗物质是什么？时空是否具有额外的对称性或超出我们已知的三个空间维度？ 2020 年代高亮度大型强子对撞机 (HL-LHC) 的升级计划正在顺利进行。这些升级将导致数据量增加100倍。利用增加的数据量和升级探测器的大量投资需要对软件进行相应的投资，以确保实现科学目标。HL-LHC 预计将从 10 年后开始获取数据，并持续多年。该概念化项目将为最终的 S2I2 研究所制定战略计划，该计划可以解决 HL-LHC 时代的软件开发和软件可持续性挑战。该概念化项目将支持一系列研讨会，以准备 S2I2 战略计划，并与国际社会一起制定社区白皮书，为美国和国际软件工作提供总体路线图，以实现 HL-LHC 的全部科学潜力。该项目推进了国家战略计算计划 (NSCI) 的目标，该计划旨在维持和增强美国在高性能计算 (HPC) 研究、开发和部署方面的科学、技术和经济领导地位。该项目是得到计算机与信息科学与工程局高级网络基础设施部门和数学与物理科学局物理部门的支持。