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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund the research activities of Professor Vera Gluscevic at the University of Southern California (USC) to advance the discovery of cosmological dark matter. The $400,000 award, effective July 15, 2023 through June 30, 2028, will support Professor Gluscevic's efforts to combine empirical evidence, fundamental theory, and novel computational methods to identify the forces...
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 $200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant is funding research by Professor Osherson's group at the University of Notre Dame to search for new, very light particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The key objectives are to develop new algorithms for reconstructing particle signatures, particularly for axion-like particles, and to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $270,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin over 3 years, from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award will support research to study the nature of dark matter, which accounts for 85% of all matter in the known universe. The research aims to better understand the microscopic properties of dark matter and its gravitational effects on...
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 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant funds research at the University of Chicago to address the longstanding question of why evidence of "beyond the Standard Model" particles has not yet been observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The research aims to enable new discoveries by developing unconventional search strategies and next-generation pixel...
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) 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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $150,000 to Professor Paolo Gondolo at the University of Utah to conduct research on dark matter, dark energy, and fundamental physics. The goal is to advance scientific understanding of these mysterious components that make up a significant portion of the universe's mass-energy content. Specifically, the research will explore theoretical explanations for dark matter based on...