NSF reverse site visit, March 14, 2007 1 Activities of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) High Energy Physics Group in CMS • Overview of Group Involvements • HEP Group Personnel and Their Affiliations • Areas of Involvement in CMS • Physics Directions • Leadership Roles • CMS effort and cost breakdown for upcoming year NSF Proposal PHY-0653592 “Experimental High Energy Physics”
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Activities of theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
High Energy Physics Groupin CMS
• Overview of Group Involvements• HEP Group Personnel and Their Affiliations
• Areas of Involvement in CMS • Physics Directions
• Leadership Roles
• CMS effort and cost breakdown for upcoming year
NSF Proposal PHY-0653592“Experimental High Energy Physics”
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Who is on the phone with you today?
Dan Claes Greg Snow
Ken Bloom
Aaron Dominguez
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UNL High Energy Physics GroupOverview
For the duration of the 3-year base-funding proposal (June 2007 – June 2010), the UNL HEP group will be pursuing frontier physicsresearch through its collaboration in Fermilab’s DZERO and CERN’s CMS Experiments.
The anticipated breakdown of commitment, averaged over the group,for the 3 years isYear One (2007-2008): 50% CMS, 50% DZEROYear Two (2008-2009): 60% CMS, 40% DZEROYear Three (2009-2010): 75% CMS, 25% DZERO
The group also leads a nationally recognized education/outreachexperiment, CROP – the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project, that,along with other outreach efforts, makes it a leading groupin physics education/outreach at many levels.
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UNL HEP Personnel and Their Project Affiliations
Faculty members:
G. Snow (1993): CMS and DZERO Experiments, CROP,Pierre Auger Observatory
D. Claes (1996): CMS and DZERO Experiments, CROP,DUSEL/UNO Experiments
K. Bloom (2004): CMS and DZERO Experiments,NSF Career outreach (Rural Nebraska)
A. Dominguez (2004): CMS and DZERO Experiments, NSF Career outreach (Bilingual English/Spanish Tutors – BEST)
Tenured Associate Prof.
Tenured Associate Prof.
Tenure-track AssistantProfessor
Tenure-track AssistantProfessor
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UNL HEP Personnel and Their Project Affiliations
Postdoctoral Research Physicists:
A.Bellavance*: DZERO
A. Sobol*: CMS
M. Eads: CMS and DZERO
S. Malik: CMS and DZERO
Senior Research Associate, left group in January 2007 for Fermilab Computing Division
Postdoctoral Research Associate, to leave group imminently to resume position in Russia
Research Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bellavance
Eads
Malik
*Supported by present Claes/Snow base funding grant
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UNL HEP Personnel and Their Project Affiliations
Postdoctoral Research Physicists:
A.Bellavance: DZERO
A. Sobol: CMSPostdoctoral Research Associate, to leave group imminently to resume position in Russia
Senior Research Associate, left group in January 2007 for Fermilab Computing Division
• Replacing these two positions is crucial to the group’s strength in CMS• Bellavance replacement is foreseen to transition DZERO to CMS over the course of proposed 3-year program• Ideal candidate: DZERO graduating Ph.D. aiming for LHC involvement. Several top candidates exist.
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UNL HEP Personnel and Their Project Affiliations
Current Graduate Students: K. DeVaughan: DZERO ExperimentD. Johnston: DZERO ExperimentM. Voutilainen: DZERO Experiment
X. Xu: CROP
First year students:J. Keller: CMS candidateT. Kelly: CMS candidateE. Petermann: CMS candidate
1-2 HEP students may join thegroup in fall 2007
UNL Visiting Scholar from Helsinki, Ph.D. 2007 on Inclusive jets
Department of Statistics, Masters Degree 2006
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UNL HEP Personnel and Their Project Affiliations
Other Affiliated Staff: Brian Bockelman: CMS Tier2, CSE graduate student
Carl Lundstedt: CMS Tier2 administrator, CSE Dept.
David Swanson: CMS Tier2 Principal Investigator, CSE Department
Plus undergraduate physics majors contributing toDZERO, CMS, and our outreach efforts
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The DZERO Experiment
DZERO is a mature facility in data-taking and physicspublication mode, with data-taking continuing until 2009 and analysis extending through 2010
UNL involvements in: Level-2 and -3 trigger electronicsand software, track reconstruction software, physicsanalysis (QCD, Electroweak, Top Quark, Higgs Searches,and New Phenomena), internal Editorial Boards, luminositymeasurement, data-taking shifts, other servicework, Speaker’s Bureau, Public Tour Area
Present leadership roles:G. Snow: Co-convener of Luminosity Working GroupM. Eads: Co-convener of Muon ID Working Group
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HEP Group Education and Outreach
Summary of initiatives• The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP)
• $1.34 Million NSF grant• Snow serves as task leader for Education/Outreach
for the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina and Colorado
• Claes serves as Education/Outreach for the emerging DUSEL and UNO initiatives in Colorado
• Bloom and Dominguez have important outreach initiatives funded by their NSF Career grants
The UNL HEP group faculty members are leadersnationally known HEP education and outreach initiatives
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The UNL group in the CMS Experiment
UNL joined the CMS experiment in 1994• Preparation of the Technical Proposal• Luminosity Measurement• Forward and Diffractive Physics simulations• CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Program
Major new initiatives over the last 3 years:Forward Pixel Detector – U.S. based project A. Dominguez is coordinator of Forward Pixel moduletesting
Tier-2 Computing Center at UNL – very high visibilityOne of 7 in the United StatesK. Bloom is project manager for all US Tier-2 centers
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Wilson Hall
DØCDF
Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois
TheDZEROExpt.
ProtonAnti-
protoncollisions
“Sidet”Silicon
DetectorFacility
“LPC”: LHCPhysicsCenter
and “ROC”:Remote
OperationsCenter
The UNL group has and will rely on FNAL resources forCMS, making it convenient to split effort with DZERO
involvements
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CMS accomplishments, past 12 months
• Hosted annual US-CMS collaboration meeting, April 2006 (Snow and full group)
• Forward and Diffractive Physics contribution to CMS-TOTEM Letter of Intent (CERN/LHCC 2006-039/G-124) (Snow, Sobol)
• CMS Thesis Awards Program (Snow)
• UNL CMS Tier-2 computing center progress and data challenge (Bloom, Dominguez, Tier-2 affiliated staff)
• Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction (Dominguez, Lundstedt, graduate students)
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The CMS Thesis Award Program
• Unique to CMS at CERN• Initiated by G. Snow in 2000, served as Secretary of the 8-member Committee for 7 years• Committee has dealt with 49 nominated theses in 7 years• Recipients receive plaque and expenses to an int’l conference to present thesis results• Work concentrated Sept.-Dec. when nominated theses are critiqued and ranked by Committee• Secretary’s work extends throughout the year• Most of the Thesis Award recipients have continued on CMS as postdocs and are in leadership positions
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The CMS Thesis Award Program
Web page
Ivica Puljak2001 recipient
Large plaquein Building 40
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Nebraska’s Tier-2 Computing Center for CMS
Bloom, Dominguez with Tier-2PI David Swanson (UNL CSE Dept., Director Research Computing Facility)with Tier-2 CPU cluster
Major commitment to CMS computingand analysis for many years
Generous University support
Bloom serves as US-CMS Tier-2Program Manager (7 sites)
Last 12 months:• Successful fall 2006 data challenge
• Transition to final software (CMSSW) and data management frameworks
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Fall 2006 Computing, Software, AnalysisChallenge (CSA06)
Nebraska’sTier-2
Data transferred (Tbyes) to the 7 U.S. Tier-2 sites
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Fall 2006 Computing, Software, AnalysisChallenge (CSA06)
Nebraska’sTier-2
CPU hours generating Monte Carlo for the challenge