Project Grant 1358981

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 $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 $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by the University of Chicago focused on enabling the discovery of new fundamental particles through novel search strategies and cutting-edge pixel detector development for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The research program seeks to explore scenarios with long-lived particles and lay the groundwork for future...

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 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...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $440,897 provides support for research on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The award will fund efforts to detect new physics beyond the Standard Model through searches for Higgs bosons decaying to heavy tau leptons. The awardee, University of Washington, will apply machine learning techniques to extract these difficult-to-detect Higgs decays, which are especially sensitive to...

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 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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $1,218,284 Project Grant to Syracuse University under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop high-granularity timing modules for the upgrade of the LHCb calorimeter detector at the CERN LHC in Switzerland and future high-luminosity particle collider applications. The project aims to create sensor and electronics packages that provide precise spatial and timing information to enable advanced particle detection and...

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...