Project Grant 2609819
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan's Regents received a $640,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded June 15, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research to develop high-intensity tunable light generation through frequency upshifting in plasma waves. The research team will investigate plasma wakefield acceleration...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the University of Maryland, College Park to upgrade its existing 100 terawatt laser system to increase output pulse energy by a factor of four. Totaling $155,249, the award under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support relativistic physics experiments in plasma, nonlinear optics, and laboratory astrophysics through July 2025. Specifically, the upgraded laser will enable tabletop...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded $640,000 to the University of California, San Diego under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on June 15, 2025, for a project concluding May 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, conducted jointly with General Atomics and the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility in Romania, focuses on developing gamma-ray sources through high-intensity...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $330,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 – Mathematical and Physical Sciences) on August 1, 2025, for collaborative research on autonomous experimental systems for materials discovery and optimization. The project, which runs through July 31, 2028, develops machine learning (ML) agents capable of coordinating multiple scientific...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $2.33 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics (CFDA 47.049 – Mathematical and Physical Sciences) awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2026. This grant supports data analysis activities for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer detector embedded in Antarctic glacial ice that functions as a neutrino telescope. The award funds...
- This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable researchers at the University of Michigan to develop and characterize a charged particle-probe setup for making measurements of extremely large magnetic fields generated by laser-driven electron beams in plasma channels. The goal is to advance understanding of the crucial magnetic field dynamics occurring in laser-plasma particle accelerators, which have...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Physics awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to University of California, Berkeley on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This award funds theoretical physics research conducted by Professors Hitoshi Murayama and Lawrence J. Hall aimed at connecting experimental data from major international facilities—including the Large...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $444,647 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 – Mathematical and Physical Sciences) awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This three-year research initiative delivers experimental investigation and fundamental scientific understanding of emergent quantum phenomena in uranium ditelluride, a quantum material...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Physics awarded $225,000 to the University of Delaware under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a three-year project grant (September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028). Professor Harikrishnan Ramani leads research activities focused on detecting physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics through innovative detection methodologies. The project delivers three primary research services:...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Delaware received a $431,020 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The research project investigates multielectron dynamics in matter by employing high-intensity tunable laser fields to study strong-field interactions with atoms and molecules. The project delivers experimental...
The University of Maryland, College Park received a $200,000 Rapid Response Research (RAPID) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics (CFDA 47.049 – Mathematical and Physical Sciences) awarded on February 15, 2026, with a completion date of January 31, 2027. This award supports an experimental campaign at the NSF ZEUS Multi-Petawatt Laser User Facility to advance laser-driven particle accelerator technology. The primary deliverables include the development and characterization of specialized hardware and diagnostics systems, specifically: supersonic gas jets exceeding 1 meter in length with tailored longitudinal density profiles, specialized optics for generating plasma channels, and diagnostic instrumentation for monitoring both laser guiding and electron acceleration processes. The research aims to demonstrate high-power laser guiding in plasma over distances exceeding 1 meter and achieve electron acceleration to energies beyond 20 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), while investigating relativistic laser-plasma interactions at unprecedented scales. Beyond hardware development, the award funds the execution of experimental activities that integrate machine learning optimization techniques to advance fundamental knowledge in particle acceleration physics and set new performance benchmarks for laser-driven accelerators. The project generates intellectual property and scientific outputs through graduate student and early-career scientist training in experimental methodology, data analysis, and scientific communication delivered via peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. These research activities support long-term development objectives for compact particle accelerator applications in medical imaging, therapy, advanced radiation sources, and materials processing.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $200.0k | 2/5/26 |