Project Grant 2513482
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,874 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to California State University, Stanislaus (CSU Stanislaus) to conduct research on searching for an extended Higgs sector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The project aims to search for additional Higgs bosons that could help explain phenomena not accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics, such as dark matter and the matter-antimatter...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $1,200,000 to researchers at Rutgers University to conduct innovative experimental particle physics research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The team will use advanced machine learning techniques and novel data analysis strategies to search for signs of new physics that could explain the mystery of why gravity is much weaker than the other...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $440,897 provides support for research on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The award will fund efforts to detect new physics beyond the Standard Model through searches for Higgs bosons decaying to heavy tau leptons. The awardee, University of Washington, will apply machine learning techniques to extract these difficult-to-detect Higgs decays, which are especially sensitive to...
- 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...
- 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 $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...
- 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 $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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $500,000 to California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. for the project "Experimental Studies into the Nature of the Higgs Mechanism and Searches for New Physics with the ATLAS Experiment" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support experimental research into the Higgs mechanism and searches for...
This $460,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at the University of Washington aimed at advancing the understanding of fundamental physics through studies of the Higgs boson and searches for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The research will focus on precision measurements of Higgs boson properties, including self-coupling, and novel techniques such as machine-learning-enhanced reconstruction of long-lived particles and searches for mono-jet signatures to uncover potential new physics. This work will also enhance the discovery potential of the ATLAS experiment and advance critical detector and computing technologies essential for the future of high-energy physics. Additionally, the award will fund the training of undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral scholars. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $460.0k | 8/15/25 |