Project Grant 60NANB13D162

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $540,000 supports research into nuclear structure and reactions from effective field theory from September 2022 through August 2025. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Mississippi State University will conduct fundamental nuclear physics research using effective field theory to calculate properties of halo nuclei and asymmetric nuclear matter relevant to astrophysics. The awardee will apply effective field...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), supports a research project titled "Puzzling Out the Proton with Precision Scattering Experiments" at Stony Brook University. The $250,000 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, aims to resolve the "proton radius puzzle" by conducting precise muon-proton scattering experiments at the Paul...

This $299,997 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research on the structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) at Stony Brook University. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Computations of nucleon electromagnetic form factors over a wide range of high momentum to enable comparison with recent experimental data from the Jefferson Lab. This work...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $189,036 supports research into electron and neutrino scattering from light nuclei through August 2025. The award is made through the NSF Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The principal investigator at The Ohio State University will investigate the structure of nuclei and nucleons through electron and neutrino scattering experiments. Theoretical calculations will be performed to identify...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to Duquesne University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the internal structure of the proton using electron beam experiments. The grant supports the principal investigator and Duquesne undergraduate students in conducting research to study the partonic distributions and origin of the proton's spin through polarized electron scattering measurements at the...

This $239,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance theoretical and phenomenological studies of the three-dimensional momentum and spin structure of the nucleon in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The primary objectives are to discover the internal landscape of the nucleon, provide analysis and explanation of existing data, and make predictions for future measurements at...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $193,628 to Lebanon Valley College is focused on advancing the understanding of hadronic structure through spin observables. The key products to be delivered include: Performing Bayesian Monte Carlo global analyses of data from various particle physics experiments to probe the 3-dimensional motion of partons (quarks and gluons) inside hadrons and how the proton's...

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 $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics will support research at the University of Tennessee to apply Bayesian model averaging techniques to improve theoretical calculations of the proton-proton fusion rate, a critical nuclear reaction in the sun. The project aims to consolidate predictions from different nuclear effective field theory approaches into a single result with reliable uncertainty quantification. The researchers plan to...

This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the proton radius puzzle at the University of Michigan. The primary objective is to reassess discrepancies in measurements of the proton charge radius when using electrons versus muons. Key activities include: Conducting simultaneous measurements of elastic electron and muon scattering off the proton, which has not been attempted before,...