Project Grant DESC0015882

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 $200,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a program of precise experiments with cold neutrons led by the University of Virginia. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year grant include: 1) Continuation of the NAB and PNAB experiments to study neutron beta decay, which aims to shed light on potential deviations from the Standard Model of particle...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $110,897 to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) to conduct research on fundamental symmetries in neutron beta decay. The award period runs from August 15, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Continuing the development of fast scintillation detectors for systematic studies in the NAB experiment Developing...

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 $100,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology will support improved measurement of the neutron lifetime through September 2025. Funded under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program, key activities include non-destructive measurement of the neutron lifetime using a Penning ion trap. Neutrons will decay into protons while in flight through the trap, with the protons captured and counted in-situ and via radio-frequency current,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 in funding to Lawrence Technological University from August 15, 2023, through July 31, 2026. The research, led by Professor Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya, aims to gain further insight into charge-parity (CP) violation in theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This work may help resolve the matter-antimatter...

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $662,481 in funding to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029. The project, titled "ADVANCING THEORY FOR NUCLEAR DOUBLE-BETA DECAY (@NDBD) - NEUTRINOS, THE UNIVERSE'S LIGHTEST PARTICLES, ARE NOTORIOUSLY HARD TO DETECT BUT NONETHELESS IMPORTANT", aims to develop a...

This $150,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will support a collaborative research effort to investigate the structure of the Hamiltonian for a neutrino interacting with a deuteron. The goal is to construct a two-nucleon-neutrino current that can be used in relativistic neutrino-nucleus scattering calculations. The research involves partners from the University of Iowa (US), Jagiellonian...

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...