Project Grant 2514888
- 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....
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $660,000 supports research into nuclear, particle, and weak interaction physics related to extreme conditions in the cosmos from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), key products include modeling how atomic nuclei and elementary particles behave in extreme temperatures and densities found in cosmic events like the Big Bang and stellar collapse. Insights gained will provide...
- 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 $330,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for the period of September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The research project focuses on using quantum mechanics and theoretical physics to better understand the fundamental properties and behaviors of elementary particles, such as neutrinos, in the extreme environments of collapsing stars and...
- 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 University of California Irvine received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on FASER and FASERnu at the Large Hadron Collider from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major...
- This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by the University of California, Berkeley to study the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The principal investigator will investigate the role of theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics in explaining this asymmetry by calculating the electric dipole moments of protons and neutrons. The project will use a new method...
- This $255,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the theoretical particle physics research activities of Professor Peisi Huang at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The research aims to advance understanding of new physics beyond the current standard model, focusing on three key areas: proposing new formation mechanisms and probes for primordial black holes, investigating mechanisms for the...
- This federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports particle astrophysics research using the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The $500,000 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, focuses on studying neutrinos from solar, supernova, and other cosmic sources, as well as reactor neutrinos. The research aims to advance particle physics...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $959,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant, awarded from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will fund the research activities of Professors Zackaria Chacko, Anson Hook, and Raman Sundrum. The principal investigators will develop and study new theories that extend the standard model of particle physics and cosmology, with three...
This federal Project Grant award from the Division of Physics of the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences) in the amount of $990,000 supports a three-year research program in theoretical particle physics and cosmology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The Principal Investigators - Professors Jonathan L. Feng, Manoj Kaplinghat, and Tim M.P. Tait - will conduct research in collaboration with colleagues and students to deepen understanding of the physical universe at both the smallest and largest scales. The research plan exploits innovative ideas in particle physics, cosmology, and their interface to address outstanding problems in fields such as searches for new physics at accelerators, neutrino and flavor physics, dark matter particle candidates, and particle cosmology. The award also aims to increase public interest and understanding of physics and astronomy research, as well as enhance participation in STEM fields.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $990.0k | 8/21/25 |