{"id":112,"date":"2014-09-15T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-11-18T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:12:33","slug":"unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"UNL Leads Supercollider Component Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finding the final piece to substantiate the \u201ctheory of everything,\u201d what\u2019s left? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Plenty, says UNL physicist Aaron Dominguez. He leads a multi-institutional collaboration to upgrade a vital component of the world\u2019s largest supercollider that has helped answer fundamental questions about the nature of the universe, including finding the Higgs boson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageBlock\" align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_324_2_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-384\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_324_2_2-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_324_2_2\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_324_2_2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_324_2_2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_324_2_2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140514_dominguez_039\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-383 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140514_Dominguez_039-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140514_Dominguez_039\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140514_Dominguez_039-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140514_Dominguez_039-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140514_Dominguez_039.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Dominguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_270\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-385 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_270-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_270\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_270-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_270-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_270.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Kurfman, Jose Andres and Greg Snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_240_sm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-386\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_240_SM-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_240_SM\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_240_SM-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_240_SM-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_240_SM.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With a nearly $11.5 million National Science Foundation grant, a team of UNL physicists and collaborators at eight U.S. universities are improving the sensitivity of the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of two large particle detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Capturing images of the explosion that occurs when superfast-moving protons collide requires a powerful digital camera, or pixel detector. UNL is building new modules for the pixel detector capable of taking 40 million images a second at a total resolution of more than 120 million pixels. Consumer digital cameras top out at about 12 million pixels. The images are used to create a movie of the particles\u2019 paths in less than 10-micron increments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the largest, most precise pixel-tracking detector ever built,\u201d Dominguez said. \u201cIt should allow us greater sensitivity to see the Higgs boson and to see and discover new forms of matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_012_sm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_012_SM-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_012_SM\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_012_SM-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_012_SM-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_012_SM.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_098\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-388\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_098-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_098\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_098-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_098-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_098.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/unl-leads-supercollider-component-upgrade\/140701_physics_107\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-387\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_107-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"140701_Physics_107\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_107-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_107-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140701_Physics_107.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0bltzEsk0k?rel=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Higgs boson, whose discovery was announced in 2012, was the last missing piece predicted by the Standard Model, a theoretical framework that explains the fundamental structure of matter in the universe. Though often called the \u201ctheory of everything,\u201d the model is far from complete, leaving out phenomena such as gravity, dark matter and dark energy, Dominguez said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt should allow us greater sensitivity to see the Higgs boson and to see and discover new forms of matter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UNL\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/hcc.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holland Computing Center<\/a> also is one of seven U.S. CMS Tier-2 sites in the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid that process and store data from this massive research project. In addition to Dominguez, UNL\u2019s high-energy physics team includes physicists Ken Bloom, Dan Claes, Ilya Kravchenko, Greg Snow and Holland Computing Center director David Swanson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finding the final piece to substantiate the \u201ctheory of everything,\u201d what\u2019s left?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,10],"tags":[212,253,41,215,218,221,220,213,216,219,106,217,252,31,52,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}