This $299,997 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research on the structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) at Stony Brook University. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Computations of nucleon electromagnetic form factors over a wide range of high momentum to enable comparison with recent experimental data from the Jefferson Lab. This work...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $570,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Christopher Newport University (CNU) to support research on the internal structure of protons and neutrons. The research group at CNU will conduct experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory, involving the scattering of polarized electrons from protons and neutrons to measure their electric and magnetic properties. This research aims to further the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $565,000 Project Grant to the Catholic University of America (CUA) to conduct research advancing the understanding of the quark-gluon structure of the fundamental building blocks of the atomic nucleus - protons, neutrons, pions, and kaons. The award, funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), has two primary goals: 1) to deepen the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) understanding of pions and kaons, and 2) to provide...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to Duquesne University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the internal structure of the proton using electron beam experiments. The grant supports the principal investigator and Duquesne undergraduate students in conducting research to study the partonic distributions and origin of the proton's spin through polarized electron scattering measurements at the...
This Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at George Washington University to study the properties of three-particle quantum systems using lattice QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics) methods. The project aims to improve the theoretical understanding of how strong nuclear forces bind nucleons together in atomic nuclei, by developing new three-body QCD...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to conduct a precise test of the Standard Model of particle physics. The project will measure the weak charge of the electron at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, which could reveal evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Key activities funded include construction and installation of beam monitoring...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $193,628 to Lebanon Valley College is focused on advancing the understanding of hadronic structure through spin observables. The key products to be delivered include: Performing Bayesian Monte Carlo global analyses of data from various particle physics experiments to probe the 3-dimensional motion of partons (quarks and gluons) inside hadrons and how the proton's...
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 $1,500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of South Carolina (USC) to study the strong nuclear force and the substructure of matter. The key products and services to be delivered include: Experimental investigations at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB) in Virginia and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland to probe the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $189,036 supports research into electron and neutrino scattering from light nuclei through August 2025. The award is made through the NSF Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The principal investigator at The Ohio State University will investigate the structure of nuclei and nucleons through electron and neutrino scattering experiments. Theoretical calculations will be performed to identify...
This $239,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance theoretical and phenomenological studies of the three-dimensional momentum and spin structure of the nucleon in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The primary objectives are to discover the internal landscape of the nucleon, provide analysis and explanation of existing data, and make predictions for future measurements at facilities like the Electron-Ion Collider. The project will extract the unpolarized 3D structure of the nucleon through a global QCD analysis of experimental data, and study the nucleon's spin structure using available world data to extract polarized transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions. This work supports the future program at the Electron-Ion Collider and ongoing efforts at facilities such as Jefferson Lab and Brookhaven National Lab. The project also contributes to educating a diverse, globally engaged workforce through courses, summer schools, and annual workshops on the 3D structure of the nucleons. This award runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026.