This $270,611 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports three separate experimental research programs at the University of Kentucky Research Foundation.
The first two programs will investigate the hadronization process - how quarks and gluons from high-energy collisions form new particles - to provide insights into quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear force. The third program aims to discover potential new particles or forces beyond the current Standard Model of particle physics by precisely measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of muons.
This award will also fund undergraduate and graduate student research and training opportunities at U.S. national laboratories as part of these experimental programs. The work will leverage the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab to conduct the proposed studies from September 2024 through August 2027.
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