The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University (ASU) a 5-year, $160,000 CAREER grant through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research aimed at directly detecting dark matter particles. The project, titled "CAREER: Searching for New Physics with Nuclear Spins - Dark Matter is an Invisible Substance," seeks to develop a new system to cast a wide net in the ongoing laboratory search for ultra-low mass dark matter by examining how it interacts with nuclear spins. The research team plans to achieve a 30-fold improvement in energy sensitivity over current methods, using optically pumped nuclear spins and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) for data readout. The project is driven by interests in high-energy physics and has the potential to facilitate the discovery of new forces and enhance the measurement of energy levels in quantum systems. No subawards are planned under this grant.
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