Excellence In Research : HBCU Collision Collaboration - J/psi Peripheral Collision Analysis and Detection

卓越研究：HBCU 碰撞协作 - J/psi 外围碰撞分析和检测

• 批准号: 1901420
• 负责人: Marcus Alfred
• 金额: $ 58.1万
• 依托单位: Howard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excellence; Research; HBCU; Collision; Collaboration

The HBCU COLLIDER Collaboration's goal is to provide resources for HBCU nuclear and particle physics faculty to further the broader goals of their collective institutional missions through research. The members of the COLLIDER Collaboration are Florida A&M University (FAMU), Howard University (HU), and Texas Southern University (TSU). Each institution's mission has a core commitment to increasing opportunities for underserved populations. Both FAMU and HU have graduate physics programs and, through this project, will lay a foundation for broader participation of HBCUs and their underserved communities in planned major national investments in experimental nuclear physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Jefferson Lab and the proposed Electron Ion Collider (EIC). There are two related objectives for this project. 1) The proposed research project involves the measurement of Ultra-peripheral J/Psi cross sections in heavy ion collisions with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. 2) In addition, the project seeks to build a cosmic ray test stand to test multi gap Resistive Plate Chambers, a technology that can be used for 10 picosecond level time of flight measurements in modern nuclear and particle physics experiments. Such an advance will greatly enhance the particle identification capabilities of collider detectors, enabling more knowledge about the fundamental laws of physics to be extracted from these collisions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

HBCU COLLIDER 合作组织的目标是为 HBCU 核和粒子物理教师提供资源，通过研究进一步实现其集体机构使命的更广泛目标。 COLLIDER Collaboration 的成员包括佛罗里达农工大学 (FAMU)、霍华德大学 (HU) 和德克萨斯南方大学 (TSU)。 每个机构的核心使命都是为服务不足的人群增加机会。 FAMU 和 HU 都设有研究生物理课程，通过该项目，将为 HBCU 及其服务不足的社区更广泛地参与计划中的相对论重离子对撞机 (RHIC)、杰斐逊实验室和提议的电子离子对撞机（EIC）。该项目有两个相关的目标。 1) 拟议的研究项目涉及使用 RHIC 的 PHENIX 探测器测量重离子碰撞中的超外围 J/Psi 截面。 2）此外，该项目还寻求建立一个宇宙射线测试台来测试多间隙电阻板室，该技术可用于现代核物理和粒子物理实验中的10皮秒级飞行时间测量。 这一进步将大大增强对撞机探测器的粒子识别能力，从而能够从这些碰撞中提取更多有关物理基本定律的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。