Experimental Physics Research Program at Columbia University/Nevis Laboratories

哥伦比亚大学/尼维斯实验室实验物理研究项目

• 批准号: 2013070
• 负责人: Michael Shaevitz
• 金额: $ 324万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Physics; Research; Program; Columbia

The Columbia University High Energy Physics group covers activities in three major programs: the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, MicroBooNE and the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermilab and South Dakota. The group also participates in the Coherent Captain Mills (CCM) experiment, has roles in DUNE construction, and a major role in the ATLAS High Luminosity upgrades. Particle physics addresses fundamental questions at a range from subatomic to cosmic scales. The Standard Model (SM) is believed to be only an approximate theory, and new physics beyond the SM will hold the key to making progress in understanding the underlying theory. Some of the most important questions that are addressed by this work are: Is the observed Higgs Boson the one predicted by the Standard Model? How does one explain the large disparity between the weak scale and the Planck scale? What are the dark matter and dark energy in the universe? Is there CP violation in the neutrino sector and is it the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe? Why are neutrino masses so small? This project will look beyond the SM at the highest energies possible or through precision measurements. Supersymmetry (SUSY), if it exists, could yield candidates for dark matter. The mystery of dark energy may be related to the Higgs boson, which was discovered at the LHC. If extra spacetime dimensions exist, they may be accessible at the LHC. This Columbia research program will also tackle the question of the nature of fundamental particles, such as the Higgs boson (ATLAS) and neutrinos (MicroBooNE, SBN, DUNE, and CCM), and, through precision measurements, probe higher energy scales. MicroBooNE and the future long and short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments will address unanswered questions related to the number of neutrino species and fundamental symmetries between neutrinos and antineutrinos. DUNE will furthermore probe for new physics which manifests itself through rare processes, such as proton decay.The Columbia group will build on their existing education and outreach efforts, engaging the full spectrum from high school students, high school teachers, and undergraduates in understanding and doing high energy physics. The group will also invest in efforts to bring the excitement of the science to the general public through individual faculty outreach efforts (lectures, tours, etc.), structured programs like Columbia’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site, and their Science-on-Hudson series of public lectures. A goal of the Columbia program is to engage under-represented groups to participate in these activities. The Columbia hardware development efforts provide postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students with valuable skills and hands-on experience with state-of-the-art instrumentation, an increasingly rare opportunity. Furthermore, the group’s recent efforts in readout and trigger for DUNE have enabled new, cross-disciplinary collaboration between physics and computer science.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.

哥伦比亚大学高能物理小组涵盖了三个主要计划的活动：LHC的Atlas实验，Microboone和Fermilab的短基线中微子（SBN）计划，以及Fermilab和South Dakota的深层地下中微子实验（Dune）。该小组还参加了连贯的船长米尔斯（CCM）实验，在沙丘结构中扮演角色，并且在Atlas高光度升级中起了重要作用。粒子物理学解决了从亚原子到宇宙尺度的基本问题。标准模型（SM）被认为只是一个近似理论，SM之外的新物理学将是理解潜在理论的关键。这项工作解决的一些最重要的问题是：观察到的希格斯玻色子是标准模型所预测的吗？一个人如何解释弱量表和普朗克量表之间的巨大差异？宇宙中的暗物质和暗能量是什么？神经元部门中是否存在CP违规，这是宇宙中物质抗性不对称的起源吗？为什么神经元如此小？该项目将以最高能量或通过精确测量来超越SM。超对称性（SUSY），如果存在，则可以屈服于暗物质的候选人。黑暗能量的神秘可能与在LHC发现的希格斯玻色子有关。如果存在额外的时空尺寸，则可以在LHC上访问它们。该哥伦比亚研究计划还将解决基本颗粒的性质问题，例如Higgs Boson（Atlas）和神经元（Microboone，SBN，Dune和CCM），以及通过精确测量，探测较高的能量尺度。微酮和未来的长和短基线神经元振荡实验将解决与神经元和抗内膜线之间的神经元数量和基本对称性有关的未解决问题。沙丘还将对新物理学进行调查，这些物理学通过稀有过程（例如质子衰变）表现出来。哥伦比亚小组将在他们现有的教育和宣传工作的基础上，吸引高中生，高中教师以及本科生在理解和进行高能量物理学方面的全部范围。该小组还将投资于通过个别教师宣传工作（讲座，旅游等）将科学兴奋带给公众，例如哥伦比亚大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站，以及他们的赫德森公共演讲系列。哥伦比亚计划的目标是让代表性不足的团体参与这些活动。哥伦比亚硬件开发工作为DOSTOC，研究生和本科生提供了有价值的技能和动手实践的经验，这是一个越来越难得的机会。此外，该小组最近在读书和触发的触发启发方面的努力使物理学和计算机科学之间的新的跨学科合作能够反映NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Vertex-finding and reconstruction of contained two-track neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/p02017
• 发表时间: 2020-02
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: P. Abratenko;M. Alrashed;Rui An;J. Anthony;J. Asaadi;A. Ashkenazi;S. Balasubramanian;B. Baller;C. Barnes;G. Barr;V. Basque;L. Bathe-Peters;S. Berkman;A. Bhanderi;A. Bhat;M. Bishai;A. Blake;T. Bolton;L. Camilleri;D. Caratelli;I. C. Terrazas;R. C. Fernández;F. Cavanna;G. Cerati;Y. Chen;E. Church;D. Cianci;E. Cohen;J. Conrad;M. Convery;L. Cooper-Troendle;J.I. Crespo-Anadón;M. Tutto;D. Devitt;L. Dominé;K. Duffy;S. Dytman;B. Eberly;A. Ereditato;L. E. Sanchez;J. Evans;G. A. F. Aguirre;R. Fitzpatrick;B. Fleming;N. Foppiani;D. Franco;A. Furmanski;D. Garcia-Gamez;S. Gardiner;V. Genty;D. Goeldi;S. Gollapinni;O. Goodwin;E. Gramellini;P. Green;H. Greenlee;L. Gu;W. Gu;R. Guenette;P. Guzowski;E. Hall;P. Hamilton;O. Hen;C. Hill;G. Horton-Smith;A. Hourlier;E. Huang;R. Itay;C. James;J. de Vries;X. Ji;L. Jiang;J. Jo;R.A. Johnson;Y. Jwa;G. Karagiorgi;W. Ketchum;B. Kirby;M. Kirby;T. Kobilarcik;I. Kreslo;R. LaZur;I. Lepetic;K. Li;Y. Li;A. Lister;B. Littlejohn;S. Lockwitz;D. Lorca;W. Louis;M. Luethi;B. Lundberg;X. Luo;A. Marchionni;S. Marcocci;C. Mariani;J. Marshall;J. Martín-Albo;D. A. Caicedo;K. Mason;A. Mastbaum;N. McConkey;V. Meddage;T. Mettler;K. Miller;J. Mills;K. Mistry;A. Mogan;T. Mohayai;J. Moon;M. Mooney;C. Moore;J. Mousseau;M. Murphy;D. Naples;R. Neely;P. Nienaber;J. Nowak;O. Palamara;V. Pandey;V. Paolone;A. Papadopoulou;V. Papavassiliou;S. Pate;A. Paudel;Z. Pavlovic;E. Piasetzky;I. Ponce-Pinto;D. Porzio;S. Prince;G. Pulliam;X. Qian;J. Raaf;V. Radeka;A. Rafique;L. Ren;L. Rochester;J. Rondon;H. Rogers;M. Ross-Lonergan;C. R. V. Rohr;B. Russell;G. Scanavini;D. Schmitz;A. Schukraft;W. Seligman;M. Shaevitz;R. Sharankova;J. Sinclair;A. Smith;E. Snider;M. Soderberg;S. Söldner-Rembold;S. Soleti;P. Spentzouris;J. Spitz;M. Stancari;J. John;T. Strauss;K. Sutton;S. Sword-Fehlberg;A. Szelc;N. Tagg;W. Tang;K. Terao;R. Thornton;M. Toups;Y. Tsai;S. Tufanli;M. Uchida;T. Usher;W. V. D. Pontseele;R. D. de Water;B. Viren;M. Weber;H. Wei;D. A. Wickremasinghe;Z. Williams;S. Wolbers;T. Wongjirad;M. Wospakrik;W. Wu;T. Yang;G. Yarbrough;L. Yates;G. Zeller;J. Zennamo;C. Zhang

The Phase-I trigger readout electronics upgrade of the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeters

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/p05024
• 发表时间: 2017-05
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: G. Aad;A. Akimov;K. Al Khoury;M. Aleksa;T. Andeen;C. Anelli;N. Aranzabal;C. Armijo;A. Bagulia;J. Ban;T. Barillari;F. Bellachia;M. Benoit;F. Bernon;A. Berthold;H. Bervas;D. Besin;A. Betti;Y. Bianga;M. Biaut;D. Boline;J. Boudreau;T. Bouedo;N. Braam;M. Cano Bret;G. Brooijmans;Han Cai;C. Camincher;A. Camplani;S. Cap;A. Carbone;J. Carter;S. Chekulaev;H. Chen;K. Chen;N. Chevillot;M. Citterio;B. Cleland;M. Constable;S. de Jong;A. Deiana;M. Delmastro;B. Deng;H. Deschamps;C. Diaconu;A. Dik;B. Dinkespiler;N. Dumont Dayot;A. Emerman;Y. Enari;P. Falke;J. Farrell;W. Fielitz;E. Fortin;J. Fragnaud;S. Franchino;L. Gantel;K. Gigliotti;D. Gong;A. Grabas;P. Grohs;N. Guettouche;T. Guillemin;D. Guo;J. Guo;L. Hasley;C. Hayes;R. Hentges;L. Hervás;M. Hils;J. Hobbs;A. Hoffman;D. Hoffmann;P. Horn;T. Hryn'ova;L. Iconomidou-Fayard;R. Iguchi;T. James;J. Ye;K. Johns;T. Junkermann;C. Kahra;E. Kay;R. Keeler;S. Ketabchi Haghighat;P. Kinget;E. Knoops;A. Kolbasin;P. Krieger;J. Kuppambatti;L. Kurchaninov;E. Ladygin;S. Lafrasse;M. Landon;F. Lanni;S. Latorre;D. Laugier;M. Lazzaroni;X. Le;P. Le Bourlout;C. A. Lee;M. Lefebvre;M. Leite;C. Leroy;X. Li;Z. Li;F. Liang;H. Liu;C. Liu;T. Liu;H. Ma;L.L. Ma;D. Mahon;U. Mallik;B. Mansoulie;A. Maslennikov;N. Matsuzawa;R. McPherson;S. Menke;A. Milic;Y. Minami;E. Molina;E. Monnier;N. Morange;L. Morvaj;J. Mueller;C. Mwewa;R. Narayan;N. Nikiforou;I. Ochoa;R. Oishi;D. Oliveira Damazio;R. Owen;C. Pancake;D. Panchal;G. Perrot;M. Pleier;P. Poffenberger;R. Porter;S. Quan;J. Rabel;A. Roy;J. Rutherfoord;F. Sabatini;F. Salomon;E. Sauvan;A. Schaffer;R. Schamberger;P. Schwemling;C. Secord;L. Selem;K. Sexton;E. Shafto;M. Silva Oliveira;S. Simion;S. Singh;W. Sippach;A. Snesarev;S. Snyder;M. Spalla;S. Stärz;A. Straessner;P. Strizenec;R. Stroynowski;V. Sulin;J. Tanaka;S. Tang;S. Tapprogge;G. Tartarelli;G. Tateno;K. Terashi;S. Tisserant;D. Tompkins;G. Unal;M. Unal;K. Uno;A. Vallier;S. Vieira de Souza;R. Walker;Q. Wang;C. Wang;R. Wang;M. Wessels;I. Wingerter-Seez;K. Wolniewicz;Wei Wu;Z. Xiandong;R. Xu;H. Xu;S. Yamamoto;Y. Yang;H. Zaghia;J. Zang;T. Zhang;H.L. Zhu;V. Zhulanov;E. Zonca;G. Zuk

First dark matter search results from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

相干公司 CAPTAIN-Mills 的首个暗物质搜索结果

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.012001
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A.;Alves, D. S. M.;Biedron, S.;Boissevain, J.;Borrego, M.;Chavez-Estrada, M.;Chavez, A.;Conrad, J. M.;Cooper, R. L.;Diaz, A.
• 通讯作者: Diaz, A.

Grid-based minimization at scale: Feldman-Cousins corrections for light sterile neutrino search

基于网格的大规模最小化：轻惰性中微子搜索的费尔德曼-考辛斯校正

• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202125102065
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: EPJ Web of Conferences
• 作者: Wospakrik, Marianette;Schulz, Holger;Kowalkowski, Jim;Paterno, Marc;Sehrish, Saba;Ketchum, Wesley;Ge, Guanqun;Karagiorgi, Georgia;Ross-Lonergan, Mark
• 通讯作者: Ross-Lonergan, Mark

Electron and photon performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2015-2017 LHC proton-proton collision data

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/14/12/p12006
• 发表时间: 2019-12-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Aad, G.;Abbott, B.;Zwalinski, L.
• 通讯作者: Zwalinski, L.