Research in Collider Physics

University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Investigators

Abstract

This award will provide three year support for the University of Notre Dame High Energy Physics Group to continue its exploration of the energy frontier with accelerator-based experiments, particularly the D0 experiment at Fermilab and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Besides extensive hardware contributions and detector commissioning and operations, the physics objectives of the Notre Dame program are broad and will exploit the available data to study top physics, electroweak bosons W and Z, QCD processes, and to search for evidence of electroweak symmetry breaking and other new phenomena. The educational objectives are not only to train postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students to be particle physics professionals but, in addition, to make significant efforts to engage non-traditional participants, high school teachers and high school students, in immersive research experiences at the scientific frontier. This award will provide support for innovative outreach activities and allow the Notre Dame group to maintain its leadership in outreach programs. It is one of the four institutions leading the QuarkNet project, hosts one of the Education Leaders in the Interactions In Understanding the Universe (I2U2) project, and provides support for the USCMS Education and Outreach Coordinator.