This $550,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports fundamental and applied high energy physics research at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The key objectives are to search for new particles, study Higgs boson decays, conduct precision measurements of Standard Model processes, leverage advanced machine learning and AI techniques, and extend the capabilities of the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, under CFDA Program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $252,000 over 3 years to support physics research and education activities at Siena College. The funding supports 3 main efforts: Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including probing for baryon number violating decays of the top quark and indirect detection of dark matter particles using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider....
This Project Grant award of $400,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics, supports research at Vanderbilt University to explore physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The project aims to leverage the data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC to search for evidence of dark matter and other physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Key components of the research include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to Cornell University, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $250,000 to conduct research on particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and develop educational materials to bring these cutting-edge research concepts and practices to undergraduate physics students. The project aims to better understand the fundamental nature of the universe by probing the basic symmetries and origins of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $180,000 in funding to Northern Illinois University to conduct research on particle physics and advance the understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter. The key activities under this award include: Studying particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland to enhance the understanding of the Higgs boson and search for new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant Award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will provide $130,000 to the University of Cincinnati to support a research program that leverages the capabilities of the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The key objectives are to probe Standard Model predictions, potentially reveal evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model, and make the first measurements of the helicity of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 in funding to Lawrence Technological University from August 15, 2023, through July 31, 2026. The research, led by Professor Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya, aims to gain further insight into charge-parity (CP) violation in theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This work may help resolve the matter-antimatter...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics has awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the period of September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. This grant, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research into understanding anomalies observed in the decays of B-quarks at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The key objectives of the project are to: Perform novel data-driven...
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 (NSF) awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Chicago. The award, entitled "Off the Beaten Track: Accelerating Discoveries with Unconventional Searches and Next-Generation Pixel Detectors," aims to address the lack of evidence for beyond the Standard Model particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by breaking traditional search paradigms and upgrading the...