Project Grant 2609291

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded The Regents Of The University Of Colorado (University Of Colorado-Denver) $254,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the SuperCDMS collaboration's science program at SNOLAB.

The award funds completion of experiment commissioning, transition to data acquisition and analysis, and delivery of dark matter detection science results. Work includes creating a comprehensive detector response model, analyzing nuclear recoil ionization yield data from the NEXUS facility, producing science results from O(GeV) nuclear recoil and O(MeV) electron recoil dark matter channels using high-voltage detectors, and training the next generation of scientists through participation in the SuperCDMS science program. The SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, sited at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, uses advanced cryogenic detectors with unprecedented sensitivity to nuclear recoil interactions and aims to achieve sensitivity to dark matter interactions approaching the neutrino fog regime where solar neutrino interactions become a limiting background.

Performance extends from August 15, 2026, through July 31, 2028, at the University Of Colorado-Denver campus in Aurora, Colorado. No sub-awards are planned. The assistance type is Project Grant.