Public Abstract

DE-SC0010266: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT THE ENERGY FRONTIER IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS WITH THE CMS EXPERIMENT

Award Status: Active

Institution: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
UEI: NNFQH1JAPEP3
DUNS: 969663814

Most Recent Award Date: 09/22/2024
Number of Support Periods: 12
PM: Patwa, Abid

Current Budget Period: 06/01/2024 - 03/31/2025
Current Project Period: 06/01/2024 - 03/31/2028
PI: Korytov, Andrey

Supplement Budget Period: N/A

Public Abstract

Experimental Research at the Energy Frontier in High Energy Physics with the CMS Experiment A. Korytov, University of Florida, (Principal Investigator) P. Avery, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator) P. Chang, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator) J. Konigsberg, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator) G. Mitselmakher, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator) Y. Takahashi, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator) The research program of the University of Florida’s experimental hadron collider group at the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN builds on the group’s strengths, expands previous areas of research into new directions, and opens up new areas of research. The program consists of CMS operation and upgrade projects, physics analyses of the LHC data, and detector R&D for future collider experiments. Significant synergy exists between all sub-projects undertaken by the group. We bear responsibility for the operations and maintenance of the CMS detector systems that were built by UF: the Endcap muon system Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC), their high-voltage system, the Level-1 endcap muon trigger, data quality monitoring, and CSC local data reconstruction. The UF Tier-2 computing center supports computing, software, and datasets for CMS physicists. Our upgrade projects include the Endcap Muon Trigger, the Global Muon Trigger, Tau-lepton Trigger, R&D on CSC longevity towards their operation at the High Luminosity LHC, and development of the future CMS computing architecture. Custom made electronic systems and innovative firmware solutions will be employed in the trigger systems, including real-time Machine Learning algorithms that expand the capabilities of the CMS physics program. The UF physics program includes measurements of the Higgs boson (H) properties using decay modes H→4l and H→bb, a search for di-Higgs production, and studies of tri-boson production. We also search for charged lepton flavor violating decays τ→3μ; new physics processes manifestly violating lepton-flavor universality, new low-mass dilepton resonances in decays of H, Z, and W bosons; X→4l decays, X→HH→4b, X→YH→4b and X→YH→6b decays. Innovative analysis techniques that include Machine Learning are extensively used to enhance the sensitivity and impact of the results.

Experimental Research at the Energy Frontier in High Energy Physics with the CMS Experiment

A. Korytov, University of Florida, (Principal Investigator)

P. Avery, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator)

P. Chang, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator)

J. Konigsberg, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator)

G. Mitselmakher, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator)

Y. Takahashi, University of Florida, (Co-Investigator)

The research program of the University of Florida’s experimental hadron collider group at the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN builds on the group’s strengths, expands previous areas of research into new directions, and opens up new areas of research. The program consists of CMS operation and upgrade projects, physics analyses of the LHC data, and detector R&D for future collider experiments. Significant synergy exists between all sub-projects undertaken by the group.

We bear responsibility for the operations and maintenance of the CMS detector systems that were built by UF: the Endcap muon system Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC), their high-voltage system, the Level-1 endcap muon trigger, data quality monitoring, and CSC local data reconstruction. The UF Tier-2 computing center supports computing, software, and datasets for CMS physicists.

Our upgrade projects include the Endcap Muon Trigger, the Global Muon Trigger, Tau-lepton Trigger, R&D on CSC longevity towards their operation at the High Luminosity LHC, and development of the future CMS computing architecture. Custom made electronic systems and innovative firmware solutions will be employed in the trigger systems, including real-time Machine Learning algorithms that expand the capabilities of the CMS physics program.

The UF physics program includes measurements of the Higgs boson (H) properties using decay modes H→4l and H→bb, a search for di-Higgs production, and studies of tri-boson production. We also search for charged lepton flavor violating decays τ→3μ; new physics processes manifestly violating lepton-flavor universality, new low-mass dilepton resonances in decays of H, Z, and W bosons; X→4l decays, X→HH→4b, X→YH→4b and X→YH→6b decays. Innovative analysis techniques that include Machine Learning are extensively used to enhance the sensitivity and impact of the results.