Searching for Magnetic Monopoles and Other Exotics with MoEDAL

使用 MoEDAL 搜索磁单极子和其他奇异现象

• 批准号: 2309505
• 负责人: Igor Ostrovskiy
• 金额: $ 71.22万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309505&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Searching; Magnetic; Monopoles; Other; Exotics

MoEDAL, or Monopole and other Exotics Detector at the LHC, is an experiment that searches for particles with isolated magnetic charge and other indicators of new physics. Detection of magnetic monopoles would constitute a major discovery and have a profound effect on our understanding of fundamental physics. Their existence would help explain the current model of a single unified field that describes strong and electroweak particle interactions. Magnetic monopoles are expected to be produced in strong magnetic fields, and MoEDAL will search the strongest magnetic fields in the known universe, which are generated during the brief moments of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. A recent addition to the experiment, the MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles (MAPP), will expand the quest for new physics by searching for feebly interacting particles. Such particles are predicted by some dark matter theories. This award will support the University of Alabama group's leading contributions to the searches for magnetic monopoles and other exotic particles, from data analysis and simulations to detector commissioning and operations. Additionally, it will support the group's outreach effort aimed to help improve STEM education of high school kids in the county and statewide. The main goals of the project are to a) lead analysis of the MoEDAL Run-3 data to search for production of magnetic monopoles and other exotics in lead-lead and proton-proton collisions; b) participate in the simulation and analysis of the MAPP data; c) develop novel machine learning based approaches to analysis and simulation of the NTD data; and d) support operation of MoEDAL by organizing NTD calibrations and contributing to the planned upgrade of MAPP. The outreach goal is to develop and deploy to local schools a physics experiment related to the field of study. Depending on the outcome, judged in part by the feedback from teachers and students, the experiment may be included in the standard roaster of Alabama Science in Motion labs. This project is jointly funded by PHY/EPP and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

LHC处的MoEdal，或Monopole和其他Exotics检测器是一个实验，它搜索具有孤立磁电荷和其他新物理指标的颗粒。检测磁性单孔将构成一个重大发现，并对我们对基本物理学的理解产生深远的影响。它们的存在将有助于解释一个描述强和静电粒子相互作用的单个统一场的当前模型。 预计将在强磁场上产生磁性单极，Moedal将搜索已知宇宙中最强的磁场，这些磁场是在LHC重型离子碰撞的短暂时刻生成的。该实验的最新添加是穿透颗粒的Moedal设备（MAPP），将通过寻找微弱的相互作用粒子来扩展对新物理的追求。某些暗物质理论预测了这样的颗粒。该奖项将支持阿拉巴马大学集团在搜索磁性单极和其他异国情调颗粒（从数据分析和仿真到探测器调试和操作）方面的主要贡献。此外，它将支持该组织的宣传工作，旨在帮助改善该县和全州的高中生的STEM教育。该项目的主要目标是a）对Moedal Run-3数据的铅分析，以搜索铅铅和质子 - 普罗顿碰撞中磁性单极和其他外来者的生产； b）参与MAPP数据的仿真和分析； c）开发基于机器学习的新方法来分析和模拟NTD数据； d）通过组织NTD校准并为MAPP的升级做出贡献，支持Moedal的操作。外展目标是开发并部署到当地学校的一项与研究领域相关的物理实验。根据结果​​的不同，由教师和学生的反馈判断，该实验可能包括在运动实验室的阿拉巴马州科学标准烘焙师中。该项目由PHY/EPP共同资助，启发竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCOR）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。