Project Grant 2512429
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,150,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Cornell University. This grant supports fundamental and applied research to study the properties of the Higgs boson and search for signs of new physics using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Key activities include upgrading the CMS detector, developing artificial intelligence techniques to extract...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $405,908 to support the University of Illinois' high-energy physics research program on the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The funding will support measurements and searches for new particles to address fundamental questions about the universe, including the role of symmetry and symmetry breaking. The award will also fund upgrades to the CMS...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant provides facility operations, maintenance, and computing support to enable the participation of U.S. scientists in the LHCb experiment at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The goal is to support research aimed at identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics by examining the properties of hadrons...
- 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...
- This federal Project Grant award for $880,000 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research at the University of Notre Dame on searching for physics beyond the Standard Model using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The research group's work includes searches for direct evidence of new physics, upgrades to the CMS detector, and educational outreach through the long-running QuarkNet program. Key technical...
- 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 $732,385 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental and applied research in experimental particle physics at the University of New Mexico (UNM). The research centers on data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, analyzing it to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Key focus areas include measurements of B-meson decays to better understand the bottom...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $395,362 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Louisiana Tech University. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028, supports research on searches and measurements in multi-jet production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The research aims to extend knowledge of the strong nuclear force and seek evidence for new particles or forces...
- This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by the University of Chicago focused on enabling the discovery of new fundamental particles through novel search strategies and cutting-edge pixel detector development for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The research program seeks to explore scenarios with long-lived particles and lay the groundwork for future...
- 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...
This $1,800,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research and training program by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that contributes to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. The project analyzes data from high-energy proton collisions to advance understanding of the fundamental building blocks of nature and the forces that govern them. Key activities include precision measurements of Higgs boson, top quark, and electroweak processes, as well as searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The university group also manages computing infrastructure, develops machine learning-based data quality monitoring, and contributes to the construction and integration of the CMS inner tracker upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC. This research supports the strategic goals of the U.S. high-energy physics community and maintains the scientific capabilities of the CMS experiment as it enters a new phase of discovery. The award period runs from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.8m | 7/30/25 |