Project Grant 1244753

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports final-stage R&D for the ISODAR particle accelerator system in South Korea. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of beam diagnostics instrumentation and machine learning algorithms for accelerator tuning, providing training for students in these cutting-edge technologies. Establishing a new...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $736,406 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study quantum chromodynamics at the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN. The research aims to advance understanding of how strong force bound states like protons are created and how their dynamics evolve. Key activities include: Measurements comparing hadron production from light...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the participation of U.S. scientists in the LHCB experiment at CERN. The grant funds facility operations, maintenance, and computing support to enable research that explores "beyond the Standard Model physics" and aims to identify new phenomena that could reveal the existence of new particles or forces. The award...

This National Science Foundation award of $316,734 supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), 12 undergraduate students per year will engage in hands-on physics research projects with senior faculty. Students will work in areas such as exotic superconductors, DNA origami structures, and radiation-hard calorimeter components for the Large Hadron...

This Project Grant award of $197,658, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), funds research and educational activities at the University of South Alabama (USA). The key products and services delivered through this award include: Continued support for the USA's participation in the NOVA experiment, a leading particle physics research project on the intensity frontier. This will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports the development of machine learning tools and outreach programs related to the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Awarded $200,000 on July 15, 2022 and set to be completed by June 30, 2025, the funding is provided under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the award to Westmont College will develop novel triggers using machine learning techniques to improve the selectivity...

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...

This $199,993 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the development of a specialized particle detector for the LHCb-ECAL upgrade at the Large Hadron Collider. The awardee, Incom, Inc., a small business in Charlton, MA, will design and fabricate a particle detector featuring ~10 picosecond timing capabilities to enhance data collection for complex particle physics experiments at the LHC facility. This grant...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $350,000 to support a 3-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site hosted by Old Dominion University (ODU) in partnership with Jefferson Lab. The REU site will provide 10 undergraduate students per summer with 10 weeks of research experience in accelerator and nuclear physics. The students will be housed at Jefferson Lab...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $442,630 supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates site in physics at Cornell University from March 2022 through February 2025. The site will provide research experiences in accelerator physics and synchrotron radiation science for twelve undergraduate students per year. Students will conduct research projects and have full access to resources at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education. In addition...