Project Grant 0847150

This federal Project Grant award of $550,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental scientific research at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to advance national energy, economic, and security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries. The research focuses on the "Cosmic Frontier" and will be conducted from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The award includes two sub-grants....

This $660,682 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the University of Chicago's contribution to the construction, commissioning, and initial data extraction efforts for the PICO-500 dark matter detector. Housed over a mile underground at the SNOLAB facility in Canada, PICO-500 consists of one of the largest bubble chambers ever built and is designed to be highly sensitive to the characteristic interactions expected from...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Photonlab of Fairfield, CA for its "NOVEL POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR RARE DECAY AND RARE PARTICLE DETECTION" project. The one-year project period runs from February 14, 2022 to February 13, 2023. Under this award, Photonlab will develop novel position sensitive photosensor technology to support rare decay and rare particle detection, in alignment with the Office of Science Financial...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the development and construction of a state-of-the-art trigger system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), a next-generation neutrino observatory located off the coast of Washington state. The award will fund a team of researchers at Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Drexel University, Michigan State University, and the...

This Project Grant award for $670,928 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the DAMIC experiment, which searches for light dark matter particles using a novel silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) detector technology. The award will enable the University of Chicago and University of Washington research groups to participate in the construction, installation, and commissioning of the DAMIC-M detector to be installed at the...

This $411,735 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop specialized germanium detectors and conduct experiments at the TRIUMF accelerator center in Canada. The goal is to search for a hypothesized boson particle in the decay of antimuons by focusing on low-energy signatures. The University of Chicago will receive the funding to build detectors with improved energy resolution of over three orders of magnitude compared to previous large scintillator calorimeters. These...

This Project Grant award of $104,267, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to accelerate discoveries in particle physics by developing unconventional search techniques and next-generation pixel detectors for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The award will investigate why evidence of "beyond the Standard Model" particles has not yet been observed at the LHC, and enable new...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports the University of Hawaii's efforts to enhance the sensitivity of the KamLAND2-Zen neutrino-less double beta decay search experiment located in Japan. The Principal Investigator will focus on fabricating, installing, and commissioning an advanced optical calibration system for the KamLAND2-Zen detector. This will involve developing fiber-based optical...

This $169,803 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and development activities related to neutrino detection technologies through January 2024. Funded under the NSF's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), the award to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology will advance the ANNIE (Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment) neutrino detector and explore technologies for future large-scale neutrino experiments. Specific activities include developing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $448,521 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Michigan Technological University. The award supports research to enhance the neutrino sensitivity of the Pierre Auger Observatory, the world's largest operating cosmic ray observatory located in Argentina. The research aims to improve detection of ultra-high energy photons and neutrinos to elucidate the nature of cosmic ray acceleration sites and advance...