This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program, CFDA 47.049, provides $467,073 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to conduct collaborative research on using gravitational waves as a tool to study high energy physics and cosmology. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include:
- Researching the detection prospects of gravitational waves from turbulent sources around the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) energy scale, with a focus on modeling parity-violating (chiral) sources that could explain matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe
- Investigating the range of QCD epoch cosmological parameters that can be tested through pulsar timing arrays
- Providing a broad range of education and outreach activities, including training graduate and undergraduate students, programs with local schools, a summer teacher training program, and community engagement initiatives to promote science through collaboration with visual artists, astrophotographers, and other creative professionals
This research aims to leverage the recent detection of gravitational waves to further our understanding of the early universe and high energy physics. The award supports CMU's internationally recognized expertise in areas such as computational physics, materials science, and cosmology to advance this important scientific frontier.
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