Project Grant 2510628
- 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 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...
- 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 $285,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Oklahoma. The grant supports Professor Sinha's research exploring the potential of future gravitational wave detectors and X-ray telescopes to probe the physics of dark matter, with a focus on studying axions and primordial black holes. This work aims to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the most abundant particle in the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to Yale University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the HAYSTAC Axion Dark Matter Experiment - Phase III. This effort aims to detect the theorized axion particle, which could comprise the unobserved "dark matter" that accounts for the majority of the mass in the universe. Key activities include upgrading the HAYSTAC detector system to expand its...
- 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...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to Yale University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports collaborative research through the Haloscope at Yale Sensitive to Cold (Dark Matter) (HAYSTAC) experiment, which aims to detect dark matter in the form of axion particles. The research seeks to advance scientific understanding of the dominant form of matter in the universe, which is believed to be dark...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $641,347 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on August 1, 2023. The grant will fund a 3-year research program to develop precision atomic physics methods for detecting hypothetical "beyond the Standard Model" particles and forces that could provide insight into dark matter and dark energy. Specifically, the award supports...
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 the Standard Model. The project utilizes highly sensitive magnetometers in 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), to detect faint magnetic signals that could be caused by dark matter or other exotic fields 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 participating in outreach, training, and mentoring programs to expand STEM participation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $185.2k | 8/19/25 |