The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $1,218,284 Project Grant to Syracuse University under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop high-granularity timing modules for the upgrade of the LHCb calorimeter detector at the CERN LHC in Switzerland and future high-luminosity particle collider applications. The project aims to create sensor and electronics packages that provide precise spatial and timing information to enable advanced particle detection and...
This $500,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the participation of U.S. scientists in the LHCB experiment at CERN. The grant funds facility operations, maintenance, and computing support to enable research that explores "beyond the Standard Model physics" and aims to identify new phenomena that could reveal the existence of new particles or forces. The award...
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 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...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Chicago. The grant, titled "CAREER: Pixel Powered Discoveries at the LHC and Beyond", will support the principal investigator's research program focused on enabling the discovery of undiscovered particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and future colliders through novel search strategies and cutting-edge pixel...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, under CFDA Program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $252,000 over 3 years to support physics research and education activities at Siena College. The funding supports 3 main efforts: Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including probing for baryon number violating decays of the top quark and indirect detection of dark matter particles using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider....
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...
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...