Project Grant 2309922
Award Date
7/1/23
Completion Date
6/30/26
Dollars Obligated
$736K
Funding Federal Agency
National Science Foundation
Awarding Federal Agency
Division of Physics
Federal Grant Program
47.049
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Similar Awards
This federal Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports operations, maintenance, and computing for the participation of U.S. scientists in the LHCb experiment at CERN. The award will fund the NSF-supported groups' share of common items necessary for the LHCb experiment, including maintenance and operations support for U.S.-delivered components, co-location of an LHCb Tier-2 computing facility, and R&D to...
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 $130,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research program at the University of Cincinnati to probe the Standard Model of particle physics using the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Key activities under this 3-year award include: Measuring the helicity of W bosons and production of W boson pairs in the forward region to test Standard Model predictions at the energy frontier. The award...
This three-year, $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the Large Hadron Collider to address open questions in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Specifically, the University of Cincinnati will utilize the LHCb detector to study rare decays of heavy quark systems and search for low mass electron and muon pairs where new physics may manifest. The upgraded LHCb detector enables unprecedented data that could reveal dark photons or other new light particles,...
The University of Cincinnati will receive $600,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct experimental flavor physics research from August 2022 through July 2025. As a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, the University will help improve the novel all-software trigger recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider and focus on GPU-based software trigger and charm quark physics. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $314,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Michigan State University (MSU) for the research activities of Professor C.-P. Yuan. The project aims to develop theoretical methods to extract critical information from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) theory, which is essential for interpreting experimental data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Key objectives include extracting updated parton distribution...
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 $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 Project Grant award, valued at $270,611, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The funding supports three separate experimental programs aimed at exploring the fundamental structure of the universe through high-energy particle collision studies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The first two programs will investigate how quarks and gluons produced in...
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...