This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $182,071 to Northwestern University to develop an experiment that uses laser-cooled trapped nanospheres to test for deviations from Newtonian gravity at the micron length scale. The primary goals are to (1) continue investigating noise sources and systematic errors in preliminary gravity measurements, with the aim of acquiring 1 million seconds of integrated...
This $160,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports an experimental research program to study deviations from the inverse-square law of gravity at sub-millimeter scales. The research team, led by The Leland Stanford Junior University, will develop an innovative technique using optical springs and quantum optics to empirically test hypotheses that gravity may deviate from the classic inverse-square law at...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 in funding to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award supports research in numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics, particularly in the context of gravitational wave events from binary neutron star mergers. Key objectives include advancing the modeling of small-scale microphysical...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $660,000 supports research into nuclear, particle, and weak interaction physics related to extreme conditions in the cosmos from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), key products include modeling how atomic nuclei and elementary particles behave in extreme temperatures and densities found in cosmic events like the Big Bang and stellar collapse. Insights gained will provide...
This $1,038,009 National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant supports research to enable the construction of third generation gravitational wave detectors. Specifically, the California Institute of Technology will explore innovative vacuum tube fabrication approaches and beam tube designs that could reduce the costs of the ultra-high vacuum systems required by $200,000 to $300,000. Success would apply to future high energy particle colliders as well. In collaboration with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, funds the research activities of Professors John Donoghue, Ben Heidenreich, and Lorenzo Sorbo. The research explores theoretical aspects of quantum gravity and how such theories may have left observable effects during the early evolution of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This grant will support collaborative research utilizing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to explore signatures of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The research will leverage the IceCube dataset, which contains the highest energy neutrino interactions observed on Earth, to...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research to develop a high-density, axially homogeneous helicon plasma source for the AWAKE (Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) project at CERN. The research aims to qualify the helicon plasma generation technology for application in next-generation particle accelerator systems, which could significantly reduce the size and cost of future linear accelerators...
Computational Physics, Inc. was awarded a $467,069 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under the three-year award beginning October 1, 2021, Computational Physics will evaluate the molecular viscosity assumption for gravity waves in the upper thermosphere using ground-based airglow...