This $325,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports the completion and commissioning of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB dark matter detection experiment located in Sudbury, Canada. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Completing the installation and deployment of a robust data quality monitoring and handling system for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment. Providing personnel to support the...
This $2,042,391 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, a direct detection dark matter search effort. The award funds the base operations of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment as it commences its first science data collection. Key activities include developing accessible data analysis resources, providing training opportunities for students and researchers, and incorporating...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $162,500.00 to the University of Colorado Denver to support the SuperCDMS SNOLAB science program. The goal of this program is to directly detect galactic dark matter and investigate its particle nature, astrophysical properties, and relationship to the Standard Model. Key activities under this award include: Completing the installation of the SuperCDMS...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $150,000 to Northwestern University to support research and development activities for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB dark matter detection experiment. The primary goals of the award are to: 1) complete the installation and begin commissioning of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, 2) establish stable detector operation and understand detector response,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $177,281 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Florida State University (FSU) to design, construct, and deploy a cryogenic, undoped cesium iodide (CsI) scintillation detector at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The detector, weighing 10 kg, will be used to measure coherent, elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, which could provide insights into the properties of...
The University of Florida was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support the ALPS II: COMMISSIONING AND DATA TAKING project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funding will allow the University of Florida to complete commissioning and initial data collection activities for the ALPS II photon regeneration experiment located in Gainesville, Florida. The...
The University of Florida was awarded a $231,104 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through support of mathematical and physical sciences research and education. Specifically, this two-year project grant will fund the University of Florida to conduct collaborative research on the...
The University of Florida was awarded a $299,810 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for work on "COMBINATORICS, COHOMOLOGY, AND MATRIX SPACES" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The funding will support research exploring relationships between combinatorics, cohomology, and matrix spaces to advance understanding of major problems in mathematics. As the NSF's Mathematical and Physical...
This $304,652 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports Drexel University's research on the calibration and development of scintillating bubble chambers for dark matter and neutrino detection. The project involves operation, data analysis, and calibration of 10-kg liquid argon bubble chambers at Fermilab to enable searches for GeV-scale dark matter particles and precision measurements of neutrino...
The University of Florida was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The grant will support research from September 2021 through August 2024 titled "ATD: NEW ALGORITHMS FOR INFERENCE AND PREDICTIONS ON LARGE GEOSPATIAL DATASETS." The...