Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program

This grant application is to fund a technical team that provides computer and technical support at Carleton University for research in particle physics. This team consists of a designer, an electronics specialist, a technician and a software and data acquisition expert. This team of people has many years of experience in designing, building and installing detectors for particle physics experiments and in providing computer support for simulation and data acquisition. Highlights of past activities include apparatus built for experiments at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva and experiment design for underground physics experiments. For CERN, the group built detectors to locate and measure particle tracks with high precision and very dense detectors to absorb and measure the total energy of particles. For underground physics provided components for the water purification system for the SNO Detector in Sudbury, Ontario and engineering for the EXO detector in WIPP New Mexico.The proposed activities of the group for the tenure of the MRS grant is to assist in the design and development of innovative detectors for SNOLAB located in the Vale Creighton mine near Sudbury, Ontario, for upgrades of the ATLAS detector located in CERN, Geneva and development work for future international accelerators. SNOLAB experiments will explore the properties of the elusive neutrino and look for ""dark matter particles"" that appear to dominate the material of the universe. The ATLAS experiment will explore a broad range of physics including the properties of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle. Detectors will be developed for future accelerators including SuperB located in the Cabibbo laboratory in Italy and the International Linear Collider (ILC), a precision machine at the energy frontier. The technical group will also be supporting simulation software and data analysis packages, as well as the establishment of infrastructure for data acquisition systems for beam test environments.