CPP+, the MRS Application of the Centre for Particle Physics

粒子物理中心MRS应用

• 批准号: SAPMR-2018-00005
• 负责人: Pinfold, James
• 金额: $ 24.77万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=718641
• 关键词: CPP+; MRS; Application; Centre; Particle

The CPP+ MRS personnel, for whom we request continued support, combined synergistically with infrastructure resources principally based at the University of Alberta (Alberta), the University of Toronto (Toronto) and York University (York), but also involving the UBC and the University of Regina (Regina), have enabled the creation of the unique CPP+ national resource. This resource enables and facilitates the effective access of Subatomic Physics (SAP) researchers to a number of major international resource centres, namely: BNL (USA), CERN (Switzerland), JLab (USA), the Kamioka Observatory (Japan), the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube), SNOLAB, and TRIUMF. The CPP+ projects range from underground physics at SNOLAB (DEAP, PICO, SNO+) and IceCube/PINGU, through long baseline neutrino physics with the T2K experiment to QCD physics with the Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) in Hall C at JLab. Thence, to high-energy physics at the LHC (ATLAS, MoEDAL). The CPP+ national resource contributes to ~50% of the projects constituting the entire Canadian Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) program. Additionally, the collaborations engaged in these projects involve the majority of SAP institutes in Canada. In order to maximize the accessibility of the CPP+ resource its widely based Operating Committee (OPCOM) comprised of the ten coapplicants on this request and one external member, the Director of IPP, and chaired by its Principal Investigator, continues to provide free, fair and merit driven access to all SAP researchers. This access is web based and available primarily via links available on the IPP and Canadian Institute for Nuclear Physics (CINP) websites. The CPP+ MRS resources are publicized through presentations given at appropriate venues, such as the IPP Town Hall at the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress in 2017. The IPP Director was included in our OPCOM in order to provide arms length oversight and community wide optimization of manpower infrastructure resources across all SAP MRS grants. To sustain this national CPP+ MRS resource we need to retain support for an engineer, a detector technologist, and an electronics technician at Alberta and an engineer based at Toronto. The Toronto Engineer listed in the previous MRS application has now retired and we will be seeking to replace him by an entry level, although fully accredited mechanical engineer. These knowledgeable, skilled and experienced personnel are invaluable assets in the arena of design, construction and testing of state-of-the-art detector and electronic systems for forefront particle s leading experiments - and vital in the training of HQP. They are also absolutely vital to handle the load of diverse, specialized and demanding projects submitted to the resource, recognizing that the demand for service is rarely uniformly balanced across the year.

我们请求持续支持的 CPP+ MRS 人员与主要位于阿尔伯塔大学 (Alberta)、多伦多大学 (Toronto) 和约克大学 (York) 的基础设施资源协同结合，但也涉及 UBC 和大学里贾纳（里贾纳）的独特CPP+国家资源得以创建。该资源使亚原子物理学 (SAP) 研究人员能够有效访问许多主要国际资源中心，即：BNL（美国）、CERN（瑞士）、JLab（美国）、神冈天文台（日本）、IceCube中微子观测站 (IceCube)、SNOLAB 和 TRIUMF。 CPP+ 项目范围涵盖 SNOLAB（DEAP、PICO、SNO+）和 IceCube/PINGU 的地下物理，通过 T2K 实验的长基线中微子物理，到 JLab C 厅超高动量谱仪 (SHMS) 的 QCD 物理。然后，进入大型强子对撞机（ATLAS、MoEDAL）的高能物理学。 CPP+ 国家资源贡献了构成整个加拿大粒子物理研究所 (IPP) 计划的约 50% 的项目。此外，参与这些项目的合作涉及加拿大的大多数 SAP 机构。为了最大限度地提高 CPP+ 资源的可及性，其基础广泛的运营委员会 (OPCOM) 由十名共同申请人和一名外部成员（IPP 主任）组成，并由其首席研究员担任主席，继续提供免费、公平和以绩效为导向接触所有 SAP 研究人员。此访问基于网络，主要通过 IPP 和加拿大核物理研究所 (CINP) 网站上的链接进行访问。 CPP+ MRS 资源通过在适当场所进行的演示来宣传，例如 2017 年加拿大物理学家协会大会上的 IPP 市政厅。IPP 主任被纳入我们的 OPCOM，以便提供独立监督和社区范围内的人力优化所有 SAP MRS 拨款的基础设施资源。 为了维持这一国家 CPP+ MRS 资源，我们需要保留对艾伯塔省的一名工程师、一名探测器技术专家和一名电子技术人员以及一名多伦多工程师的支持。之前 MRS 申请中列出的多伦多工程师现已退休，我们将寻求由入门级、完全认可的机械工程师取代他。这些知识渊博、技术精湛、经验丰富的人员是前沿粒子领先实验的最先进探测器和电子系统的设计、建造和测试领域的宝贵资产，对于 HQP 的培训至关重要。 它们对于处理提交给资源的多样化、专业化和高要求项目的负载也至关重要，因为他们认识到全年的服务需求很少是均匀平衡的。