This Project Grant award, valued at $360,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The funding supports theoretical research activities of Professors Nikolaos Kidonakis and Marco Guzzi at Kennesaw State University's Research and Service Foundation (KSU R&SF). The research project aims to advance the understanding of fundamental particles and their interactions, with a focus on the top quark,...
Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research in particle theory for high-energy collider physics from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The award is being used to fund research and experimentation related to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals of advancing the mathematical and physical sciences and strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise....
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,874 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to California State University, Stanislaus (CSU Stanislaus) to conduct research on searching for an extended Higgs sector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The project aims to search for additional Higgs bosons that could help explain phenomena not accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics, such as dark matter and the matter-antimatter...
This $170,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research on the Higgs boson and the search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the ATLAS experiment. The award funds the research activities of the California State University (CSU) ATLAS group, including principal investigators at CSU Sacramento and CSU East Bay, along with undergraduate student researchers. The key...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $500,000 to California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. for the project "Experimental Studies into the Nature of the Higgs Mechanism and Searches for New Physics with the ATLAS Experiment" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support experimental research into the Higgs mechanism and searches for...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a three-year $525,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research pursuing a non-standard Higgs boson off the beaten path from September 2021 through August 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. This...
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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support a research team at Northern Illinois University (NIU) to study the Higgs boson and search for new physics at the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The $380,000 award will enable the NIU team to focus on several key objectives: 1) Studying Higgs bosons that decay into pairs of photons to search for...
This $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation supports three separate experimental programs aimed at exploring fundamental particle physics. The first two programs will investigate how quarks and gluons produced in high energy collisions eventually form the visible particles that make up the universe, providing insights into quantum chromodynamics. The third program...
This three-year, $147,051 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research and educational activities at Kennesaw State University aimed at furthering understanding of elementary particle physics. Dr. Andreas Papaefstatiou will develop novel phenomenological and simulation tools to measure scalar particle properties like the Higgs boson at particle colliders. This could provide insight into electroweak symmetry breaking and mass generation, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter. Educational objectives include training undergraduate researchers, generating public visualizations of particle collisions, and introducing non-experts to particle physics and simulation techniques. The Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation will oversee delivery of the research, educational programming, and broader impacts goals of the award ending July 2025.