Project Grant 2514278
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences), supports a research project led by PI Prof. Osherson at the University of Notre Dame. The $200,000 grant, awarded on April 1, 2025, will fund the group's efforts to develop new algorithms and software to reconstruct particle collision signatures at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in search of hypothetical new particles that could explain unresolved questions in particle...
- 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...
- 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 $1,150,000 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 $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 $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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, under CFDA Program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $252,000 over 3 years to support physics research and education activities at Siena College. The funding supports 3 main efforts: Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including probing for baryon number violating decays of the top quark and indirect detection of dark matter particles using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider....
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $450,000 over a 5-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029 to the University of Notre Dame. The grant will fund research to improve nuclear theory calculations and enable more precise searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The project aims to develop a tractable approximation method to include three-particle...
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 contributions include management of the U.S. contributions to the electromagnetic calorimeter, leadership in high-level trigger monitoring and CMS simulation efforts, and R&D for detector upgrades. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $880.0k | 7/31/25 |