Project Grant 2209522
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $457,380 provides funding through July 2025 for the HAYSTAC Quantum Enhanced collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Colorado. The award supports research seeking to discover the identity of dark matter through operation of one of the world's leading experiments searching for the hypothetical axion particle. UC Berkeley is responsible for research and development of tunable microwave cavities and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary UC Berkeley received a $320,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. This collaborative research award supports the HAYSTAC (Haloscope At Yale Sensitive to Cold Dark Matter) experiment, a leading scientific initiative focused on detecting axions as candidates for dark matter. The project delivers...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to Yale University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the HAYSTAC Axion Dark Matter Experiment - Phase III. This effort aims to detect the theorized axion particle, which could comprise the unobserved "dark matter" that accounts for the majority of the mass in the universe. Key activities include upgrading the HAYSTAC detector system to expand its...
- The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $277,228 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports the "Exploring Ultracold Matter Along the Complexity Axis" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in physics by promoting progress in mathematical and physical...
- The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $249,017 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports research to develop direct estimates and confidence intervals for the fidelity of quantum states under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to advance mathematical and physical sciences knowledge and understanding of major problems to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $385,878 project grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado for research titled "Topological and C*-Algebraic Quantum Matter" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will support research into topological and operator algebraic structures in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories. The University of Colorado will leverage its expertise in operator...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $341,896 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the development of the "DARKQUEST" experiment, which will upgrade the existing SPINQUEST spectrometer at Fermilab's 120 GeV Main Injector to enable a new search for dark matter particles in the mega-electron volt to giga-electron volt mass range. Key...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Physics awarded $300,001 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. for a collaborative research initiative running from September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This project supports two international experimental programs—the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic Physics Searches (GNOME) and the Search for Non-Interacting...
- 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 $540,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical physics research conducted by Professors Hitoshi Murayama and Lawrence J. Hall at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The primary deliverables include advanced theoretical research connecting experimental data from multiple international facilities—including...
The National Science Foundation awarded $421,862 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to The Regents of the University of Colorado for the project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HAYSTAC QUANTUM ENHANCED." The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Colorado will work collaboratively on the HAYSTAC experiment from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The experiment seeks to discover dark matter through the detection of hypothetical axion particles using quantum-enhanced microwave cavity designs and photon sensors. Key deliverables include the completion of ongoing data collection with the current squeezed state receiver, deployment of an improved cavity design by Berkeley, and development of an entanglement-based cavity and receiver prototype by Colorado to further increase detection capabilities. Both universities will jointly integrate and commission the new cavity and receiver. The award supports innovations that can dramatically enhance the discovery potential of the HAYSTAC experiment in the search for dark matter.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $421.9k | 8/5/22 |