Project Grant 1615006

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...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $440,666 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Princeton University for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DISCIPLINARY IMPROVEMENTS: FAIROS-HEP, A RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORK FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS." The award period is from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to foster the adoption of practices and cyberinfrastructure to enable reuse and reinterpretation...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin - Madison received a $625,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2027. This award supports research on wave propagation and ionization efficiency in high-density helicon plasmas, with the primary objective of developing and qualifying helicon plasma source...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Physics awarded $460,000 to the University of Washington on August 15, 2025, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support high-energy physics research at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Through the ATLAS experiment, the research team will conduct precision measurements of Higgs boson properties, including self-coupling analysis, and search for new physics using machine...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $120,650 from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to the University of California, Berkeley to develop optimized software for lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) computations on modern GPU-accelerated supercomputer systems. The project aims to advance the computational capabilities for studying the physics of hadron-hadron interactions, including...

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 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics provides $590,584 to Michigan Technological University to advance understanding of gamma-ray astrophysics through analysis of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory and integration with multi-messenger data. Researchers will analyze gamma-ray emission measurements from hundreds of GeV to beyond 100 TeV to improve knowledge of cosmic ray acceleration and interactions in the universe....

The University of Cincinnati will receive $600,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct experimental flavor physics research from August 2022 through July 2025. As a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, the University will help improve the novel all-software trigger recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider and focus on GPU-based software trigger and charm quark physics. The research aims to...

This $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

Federal Grant Award Summary Brown University received a $600,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, to support "Computational Advances to Enable Precision Physics at the HL-LHC" (High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider). This award funds fundamental scientific research and computational methodology development to advance physics discovery and innovation at one of the world's premier particle physics...