Project Grant 2012232

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 $649,435 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a tabletop experiment at the University of Chicago with unprecedented sensitivity to hadronic CP violation. The experiment aims to develop a new approach using an optically-trapped, ultracold gas of the polar molecule francium-223 (223FrAg) to search for the Schiff moment of francium-223. This has the potential to increase sensitivity to nuclear charge distribution deformations by a factor of 1,000 beyond the...

This $449,946 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at Stanford University and the University of Washington to develop a novel axion detector called a haloscope. The haloscope is expected to improve the scan rate of axion dark matter experiments by more than three orders of magnitude at frequencies between 4-7 GHz. Researchers will fabricate and test a full-sized science-grade cavity under cryogenic conditions in...

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...

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...

STREAMLINE 2 COLLABORATION: MACHINE LEARNING FOR NUCLEAR MANY-BODY SYSTEMS Award Overview Michigan State University received a $1.386 million Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027, to support the STREAMLINE 2 Collaboration focused on developing machine learning (ML) and model order reduction techniques for nuclear many-body systems. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental...

This National Science Foundation award provides $450,000 to the University of Florida to perform final commissioning and data analysis for the first science runs of the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) II experiment. The ALPS II experiment, located at the DESY laboratory in Germany, is the world's most sensitive "light shining through a wall" experiment that searches for interactions between photons and hypothetical low-mass particles that may contribute to dark matter. This work under...

Euclid Techlabs, LLC was awarded a $206,304 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to support machine-aided cleanroom assembly of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) structures through March 27, 2022. The award was funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically,...

This $190,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of novel cavity haloscopes by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington to improve the scan rate of axion dark matter experiments by more than three orders of magnitude at frequencies between 4-7 GHz. The researchers will fabricate and test a full-sized science-grade cavity in an existing 250mK testbed to demonstrate...

This three-year, $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the Large Hadron Collider to address open questions in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Specifically, the University of Cincinnati will utilize the LHCb detector to study rare decays of heavy quark systems and search for low mass electron and muon pairs where new physics may manifest. The upgraded LHCb detector enables unprecedented data that could reveal dark photons or other new light particles,...