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Fresno State’s ATLAS Program at the Large Hadron Collider

(LHC) of CERN

LHC

Yongsheng Gao

(Physics Dept, CSM, Fresno State)

3/5/2015 from CERN for CCSC meeting

Fresno State Physics Yongsheng Gao 2

~10000 scientists: ~600 institutions of ~100 countries

CERN: World Laboratory

World Wide Web (1989)

W,Z discovery: Nobel Prize 1984

Invention & development

of particle detectors, in

particular the multiwire

Proportional chamber

(Nobel Prize 1992)

Other Nobel Laureates at CERN


CERN and LHC

Large Hadron Collider (17 miles long)

Yongsheng Gao

Speed of Light ~ 186,000 miles/sec

30%

87%

99.999999% the speed of light

LHC at CERN

Fresno State Physics 4

$10B, THE energy frontier for New Physics discovery until at least 2030


ATLAS Detector Size: 48m x 24m x 24m; Weight: 7000 tons ~108 electronic channels; ~3000 km cables


ATLAS Control Room

ATLAS Control Room where I am in right now

~300 ft


>$1B. US DOE/NSF contributed ~$200M and already committed

>$100M towards future upgrades

ATLAS Detector


News Media on 7/4/2012

“Physicists find elusive

Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

Local: ABC-30, CBS-47, KSEE-24, Fresno Bee

Higgs and the holy grail of physics

It’s a boson: Higgs quest bears new particle

seen as key to universe”

LHC: Surprise and elation as signal

Discovery may help tell universe’ secrets

Reuters

The Associated Press

crosses finish line

WSJ The Big Reveal: Does the Higgs boson exist?

http://www.time.com/time


Nobel Prize for Higgs Summer 2012: Historic observation of Higgs boson with mass of

mH≃125.5GeV from ATLAS/CMS

Autumn 2013:

ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid

~3000 physicists, ~220 institutions, 40 countries


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US National Labs: ANL, BNL, LBNL and SLAC

US Universities: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia,

Chicago, Stanford, UC, UPenn, Washington, etc.

Fresno State: only CSU campus on ATLAS or CMS

Outstanding opportunities for our faculty, postdocs

and students for the next 20 years or longer

International Labs: CERN, TRIUMF (Canada),

INFN (Italy), LAL (France) , DESY (Germany),

KEK (Japan), IHEP (Russia), IHEP (China), ……

International Universities: Cambridge, Oxford,

U. College London, U. of Tokyo, ETH Zurich, ……

ATLAS Collaboration

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ATLAS at Fresno State Faculty: Yongsheng Gao (2007 to present)

Students: 11 graduate & undergraduate

Yongsheng Gao

Supported by $145K (CSM), $183K (Provost), $100K (ORSP), $15K/yr (CSM), ~$6K/yr (IRA)

Fresno State and our ATLAS faculty/postdocs have authorship in every ATLAS publication

(~100 papers per year in top physics journals) Fresno State Physics

3 NSF research grants (~$1.6M, indirect: ~$360K) since 2009. ~$350K in ATLAS membership fee

Postdocs: Harinder Bawa (2008 to present)

Andrew Lowe (4/2010 to 10/2012)

Yongsheng Gao 13

CSU NUPAC

Fresno State Physics

Fresno State: only CSU involved in the Higgs

discovery and only research a CSU campus is

ever involved in which resulted in a Nobel Prize

Dr. Singleton/Gao: building the CSU Nuclear &

Particle Physics Consortium: 15 CSU campuses

Bakersfield, CI, Chico, DH, Fresno, Humboldt, LA,

LB, CSUN, Pomona, Sac, SB, SF, SLO, Stanislaus

Every summer since 2008, sent 5 to 7 students

from CSU NUPAC campuses to work at CERN on

ATLAS research projects

Fresno State has been the center of CSU NUPAC


CSU Students at CERN Year CSU students worked at CERN

2008 5 (Fresno)

2009 5 (Fresno: 4; Sac: 1)

2010 5 (Fresno: 2; LB: 2; Sac: 1)

2011 6 (Fresno: 4; Pomona: 2)

2012 5 (Fresno)

2013 6 (Fresno: 3; CI: 3)

2014 7 (Fresno: 5; CI: 2)

2015 7 (Fresno: 5; CI: 2)

Online HEP course to CSU NUPAC since 2012 to prepare CSU students for working at CERN

Yongsheng Gao 15

CSU Students at CERN 19 Fresno State students have worked on ATLAS at

CERN for at least one summer since 2008

Funded by CSM ($15K/yr), IRA (~$6K/yr), FSSR, etc.

Reported by Fresno Bee, ABC-30, CBS-47, KSEE-24, …

Projects: detector upgrade R&D, testing, software, grid

computing, trigger/DAQ, new physics searches, …...



CSU Students at CERN

Sarah McGovern (Long Beach) received $7,650 from NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE)

Charlie Young (SLAC): James MacDougall is the best summer student we have ever worked with, including those students from SLAC and Stanford University

James MacDougall (Sac State): My CERN trip in 2009 is a life-changing experience

MacDougall joined Fresno State as a Master student. He worked at CERN again for 10 weeks during summer of 2012 and did an outstanding job in ATLAS ID. ATLAS paid his travel, hotel, and salary to work at CERN from 9/2012

to 12/2012. ~40% of all physics graduate students joined Fresno State because of our ATLAS program

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http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yogao/ATLAS/

Worked on ATLAS research, presented results at ATLAS Working Group meetings, attend CERN Summer Student

Lecture Series given by top physicists of the world, … ATLAS Students move on to high-tech companies,

teaching, Ph.D programs (UC-Berkeley, UCSC, UCSD, Iowa, Hamburg, CEA Saclay, HEPHY Vienna, ……)

CSU Students at CERN


2010 2011 2012 2013 2014


Students’ CERN Experience

All previous efforts to build a sustainable experimental

High Energy Physics program at a CSU have failed

8/2009: Received $460K NSF Elementary Particle

Physics (EPP) core grant, first ever to a CSU, essential

towards a sustainable experimental HEP program

Yongsheng Gao 19 Fresno State Physics

10/2007: Fresno State officially admitted to ATLAS.

NSF started paying our ATLAS membership fee to CERN

(~$17K per US physicist per year, ~$350K up to now)

NSF EPP community: Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Johns

Hopkins, Michigan, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD,

Washington, Yale, … Funded by EPP for over 30 years

Typical 3-year grant: >$2M (~3 faculty, ~3 postdocs)

Our Road to ATLAS


Our 2009 3-year EPP grant ($460K with ~$138K of

indirect) has ample space to grow. Great opportunity

and challenges (Proposals ranked only by importance

in LHC research. No special consideration given to

teaching intensive schools like Fresno State)

Our Road to ATLAS

8/2009: Led joint NSF Major Research Instrumentation

(MRI) proposal for all 9 EPP core grant universities on

ATLAS: Build Grid Computing facilities at these schools

3/2010: Received $620K (indirect: ~$80K) NSF MRI

grant. Fresno State: Only lead institution with other 8

(Chicago, Columbia, Hampton, MSU, NIU, NYU, Stony

Brook, Washington) as subcontractors of Fresno State

Tier 1

Tier2 Center

Online System

Offline Farm, CERN Computer Ctr

BNL France Italy UK

Institute Institute Institute Institute

~100-400 MBytes/sec

100 - 10000 Mbits/sec

~PByte/sec

10+ Gbits/sec

Tier2 Center Tier2 Center Tier2 Center

~2.5+ Gbps

Tier 0 +1

Tier2 Center Tier 2

CERN/Outside Resource Ratio ~1:2 Tier0/( Tier1)/( Tier2) ~1:1:1

Fresno State

>10 PB/Yr!

Physics from ATLAS Data

Tier 3


Fresno State Tier 3: 408 cores, 210 TB Funded by $620K NSF MRI grant. ATLAS computing needs up to 2015 only


5/2012: EPP core grant renewed for $511K. (11%

increase with 2 month early start while all other

renewal grants were cut by 9% to 10%)

5/23/2014: Assistant Vice Chancellor Jim Till hosted

meeting at CO about forming a new CSU-wide affinity

group in physics and astronomy with ATLAS/NUPAC

as key components. All campuses invited to meeting

Our Road to ATLAS

CSU CO has contributed up to $1M to an individual

existing affinity group. Funding from CO to Fresno

State likely once the affinity group is established

10/2014: Submitted EPP core grant renewal proposal

($841K with $240K indirect from 6/2015 to 5/2018).


12/2014: Led joint NSF MRI proposal for 18 NSF EPP

supported universities on ATLAS & CMS: Develop new

LHCAnalyNet (Distributed Computing Instrument) for

incoming LHC Run-2

Fresno State: Only lead institution in this 1-year, ~$1M

joint US ATLAS/CMS proposal with other 17 (Chicago,

Columbia, Cornell, FIU, Kansas, MSU, Nebraska, NIU,

Northeastern, Notre Dame, NYU, Purdue-Calumet,

Rutgers, Stony Brook, SUNY-Buffalo, Vanderbilt,

Washington) as subcontractors of Fresno State

Fresno State: indirect of ~$152K plus ~$20K computer

equipment. Proposal submitted on 1/22/2015

Our Road to ATLAS


Investments/Benefits

Total NET Fresno State investment since 2007: ~$67K

(~$427K – ~$360K (indirect)) (or <$9K per year)

Total Fresno State Investments since 2007: (Postdocs

(~$221K), student travel (~$63K), other travel/Misc

(~$48K), CSM Awards (~$4K), total assigned time

since 2009 Fall (Sum of actual assigned WTUs per

year/30 x my salary): ~$91K): ~$427K

Total 3 NSF grants: ~$1,600K with indirect of ~$360K;

In addition, ~$350K ATLAS membership fee to CERN

~$240K and ~$150K indirects if EPP/MRI proposals

will be renewed/funded in 2015. Our ATLAS program

will be making money for Fresno State by 2015!

Other Benefits Fresno State: authorship in ~100 ATLAS papers each

year in top physics journals (Higgs discovery, etc.)

More exciting discoveries expected with Run-2. Greatly

enhance research profile of Fresno State/CSM/Dept.

Only CSU campus in ATLAS & Higgs discovery. News

coverage in ABC-30, CBS-47, KSEE-27, Fresno Bee, etc.

High visibility in CSU/Central Valley. Attracts students

to Fresno State (~40% physics graduate students)


Ample/significant NSF funding opportunities: ~$250K

IRES (8/14), ~$840K EPP (10/14), ~$1M MRI (1/15),

joint ATLAS/CMS ~$147M MREFC (2015), international

collaboration with ATLAS Ph.D program in China, ……

Only possible because of our ongoing EPP core grant!


DOE/NSF Core grant institutions: Caltech, Chicago,

Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,

Michigan, MIT, NYU, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, UCLA,

UCSD, UPenn, Washington, Wisconsin, Yale, ……

Receiving 3-year >$2M core grants for >30 years.

Continued EPP core grants stable income for university

Other Benefits

Fresno State: Center of NUPAC and incoming new

official CSU-wide affinity group in physics/astronomy.

Innovative teaching: Offer online HEP courses to CSU

NUPAC campuses since 2012, send 5 – 7 CSU students

each year to work at CERN: prepares CSU students for

their personal/professional success in an increasingly

competitive, global, and multi-cultural society


Summary and Outlook Fresno State’s ATLAS Program at LHC of CERN -- Exciting and Promising. Unique in CSU system

-- Fresno State: $145K (Carey), $183K (Covino), $100K (McClanahan), CSM ($15K/year), IRA, … -- 3 NSF research grants: $1.6M with $360K indirect; Other opportunities (EPP, IRES, MRI, MREFC, …) -- Leading CSU NUPAC, new CSU-wide affinity group -- 5 – 7 CSU students work at CERN each summer -- Higgs discovered. More expected in Run-2 -- ATLAS: a leading player in the post-Higgs new era! (~100 publications/year at top physics journals) Outstanding opportunity for Fresno State till 2030 -- Challenges: Compete with top research universities in Comparative Peer Review which gives no special consideration to teaching intensive institutions

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