{"id":29,"date":"2022-09-26T19:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2022\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:50:45","slug":"subatomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2022\/subatomic\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing International Subatomic Physics Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider began smashing subatomic particles in 2008, scientists with the Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration have made remarkable discoveries about the very nature of matter and our universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 1,000 papers outlining these discoveries, including the landmark finding of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, are the most visible accomplishments from the Switzerland-based LHC, the world\u2019s largest, most powerful particle accelerator. Within the LHC is the CMS detector, which enables scientists to study what happens when high-energy particles collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Husker physicists (from left) Ilya Kravchenko, Dan Claes, Frank Golf and Ken Bloom conduct research at CERN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ken Bloom (second from right) stands with graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in front of Jorgensen Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Such discoveries depend on a crucial underlying task: maintaining operations of the CMS detector, a building-sized instrument that records a remarkable 1 terabyte of data per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a five-year, $51 million grant from the National Science Foundation, UNL now leads the NSF-funded portion of the U.S. CMS Operations Program. The program is responsible for managing U.S.-based CMS components, overseeing the software and computing infrastructure, and planning future upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA successful research program is built on a successful operations program,\u201d said Ken Bloom, principal investigator and professor of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nebraska will distribute funds to 19 partner institutions, all leaders in particle physics, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton and Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An illustration of what a collision event might look like inside the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The grant \u2013 one of the largest in university history \u2013 caps Nebraska\u2019s and Bloom\u2019s more than 30 years of contributions to the LHC. This work started in the early 1990s, when Husker physicists launched initial research related to the instrument. In 2005, Nebraska\u2019s Holland Computing Center became one of seven CMS Tier-2 computing sites in the U.S., which manage data that physicists use worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloom led the Tier-2 grid for nearly a decade. From 2015 to 2019, he served as software and computing manager for the operations program. Then in January 2021, he took over as the program\u2019s deputy manager, which brought the NSF funding to Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Nebraska, our research in physics has been a strength for decades, and this NSF grant recognizes that, along with our demonstrated ability to provide leadership on the international stage,\u201d Chancellor Ronnie Green said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the LHC launched its third run of data collection, which will double the size of the CMS dataset. Scientists continue to explore the Higgs boson particle, dark matter and other unknown aspects of the universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Nebraska physicists Ken Bloom, Frank Golf, Ilya Kravchenko and Dan Claes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Close-up of a circuit being assembled for the Large Hadron Collider in Jorgensen Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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