Project Grant 2510625
- This $177,249 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by Messiah University. The project aims to advance experimental searches for ultralight bosonic fields, such as axions and hidden photons, that may constitute dark matter or arise in other physics beyond the Standard Model scenarios. The project involves two international experiments - the Global Network of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $217,333 to Oberlin College from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028 to support two international experiments searching for evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The first experiment, the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic Physics Searches (GNOME), will use a global sensor network to detect faint magnetic signals that could be caused...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $185,183 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Bucknell University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "RUI: BSM-PM: Exotic Physics Searches with Magnetometer Networks" that aims to advance experimental searches for ultralight bosonic fields, such as axions and hidden photons, which may constitute dark matter or arise in other physics scenarios beyond...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $540,000 to fund the research activities of Professors Hitoshi Murayama and Lawrence J. Hall at the University of California, Berkeley. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the laws of physics, with a focus on discoveries enabled by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, underground experiments in South Dakota, and other global facilities....
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $455,451 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The University of New Mexico for the period August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025. The grant funds research to detect the Migdal effect for atoms of interest in dark matter searches and evaluate its validity for setting dark matter limits. Researchers will participate in a European experiment using an optical time-projection chamber to image and reconstruct low...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $560,000 in funding to Arizona State University to conduct research aimed at directly detecting dark matter particles. The primary goal is to develop a new system to 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, which could not...
- 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 federal Project Grant award in the amount of $449,999.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award supports the "Axion Resonant Interaction Detection Experiment" (ARIADNE) project, a collaborative research effort aimed at completing the setup of an experiment to detect axions - a potential form of dark matter. The project will train a team of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $742,503 to Yale University to develop new types of force sensors that may enable detection of dark matter and gravitational forces between microscopic particles. The research team will use arrays of micro- and nano-particles in ultra-high vacuum as sensitive force sensors to search for dark matter and study quantum gravity effects, with the goal of...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds the research activities of Professor Harikrishnan Ramani at the University of Delaware. The project seeks to advance the understanding of fundamental physics by developing innovative methods to detect new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. Specifically, the research focuses on exploring the possibility of detecting elusive,...
This Project Grant award, valued at $300,001.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort focused on exotic physics searches using magnetometer networks. The project, led by California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc., aims to advance experimental searches for ultralight bosonic fields such as axions and hidden photons that may constitute dark matter or arise in scenarios beyond the Standard Model of physics. The research involves two international experiments - the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic Physics Searches (GNOME) and the Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE HUNT). These experiments utilize highly sensitive detectors to detect faint magnetic signals that could be caused by dark matter or other exotic fields originating from astrophysical events. Undergraduate students will contribute to all aspects of the research, from experimental design and construction to data collection and theoretical modeling, while also engaging in outreach, curriculum development, and mentoring programs to expand STEM participation. This award runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/19/25 |