The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $277,644 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to conduct theoretical studies of collisions involving electrons, positrons, and positronium atoms, and to investigate the control of these processes using laser fields. This grant, funded under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance the fundamental understanding of antimatter and its applications in fields such as technological...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $135,000 in funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 for research activities led by Professor Sophia Domokos. The research aims to use the phenomenon of holographic duality to better understand and categorize structures formed by the strong interactions between elementary particles, such as protons and...
This $255,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the theoretical particle physics research activities of Professor Peisi Huang at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The research aims to advance understanding of new physics beyond the current standard model, focusing on three key areas: proposing new formation mechanisms and probes for primordial black holes, investigating mechanisms for the...
This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by the University of California, Berkeley to study the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The principal investigator will investigate the role of theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics in explaining this asymmetry by calculating the electric dipole moments of protons and neutrons. The project will use a new method...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $300,000 in funding to support the research activities of a postdoctoral research associate in the research group of Professor Lisa Randall at Harvard University. The research aims to address key challenges in particle physics, such as the hierarchy problem and issues concerning the energy density of the universe, by investigating theories with extra...
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 program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 to Sam Houston State University (SHSU) for the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The funding supports research by Professors James B. Dent, William Shepherd, and Joel W. Walker in theoretical physics, including areas such as Standard Model Effective Field Theory, collider physics, primordial black holes, dark matter, and gravitational...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $270,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin over 3 years, from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award will support research to study the nature of dark matter, which accounts for 85% of all matter in the known universe. The research aims to better understand the microscopic properties of dark matter and its gravitational effects on...
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 to fund the research activities of Professor Monica Pate at New York University from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to advance the understanding of quantum gravity by tailoring an extension of the holographic principle to the problem of quantum gravitational scattering. Key objectives include constraining...