Project Grant DESC0018521

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will support the development of advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms and data compression techniques to address the 200 TB/s data rate challenge for the LHCb Upgrade II experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Specifically, the project will extend the functionality of the HLS4ML software...

This Project Grant award of $104,267, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to accelerate discoveries in particle physics by developing unconventional search techniques and next-generation pixel detectors for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The award will investigate why evidence of "beyond the Standard Model" particles has not yet been observed at the LHC, and enable new...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to James Madison University (JMU) will support the development, construction, and commissioning of a modular array based on plastic scintillator detectors for fast neutron detection. The $436,952 award will enable the research team to create an advanced neutron detector that significantly improves position resolution compared to current designs, advancing nuclear structure studies...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports fundamental research and workforce development activities led by the University of Chicago. The key products and services to be delivered include: Novel search strategies and cutting-edge pixel detector development to enable the discovery of undiscovered particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with a focus on scenarios...

This $599,292 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports the development of new cyberinfrastructure for real-time anomaly detection in particle physics experiments. The Trustees of Columbia University will leverage advances in artificial intelligence and detector technologies to create computationally efficient tools capable of intelligently detecting rare and unpredictable patterns in experimental data without relying on prior...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $116,552 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) to develop open-source cyberinfrastructure for publishing and reusing minimally compressed measurement data from large physics experiments. The project aims to build tools that enable measurements directly on uncompressed or minimally compressed data, addressing limitations in current...

This $572,067 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of an event plane detector for the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Lehigh University is the primary awardee and will produce 15 calorimeter front-end modules, 8 transmitter modules, and 3 data collection modules to digitize and transmit signals from silicon photomultiplier detectors by July 2023. Columbia University serves as a...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Photonlab of Fairfield, CA for its "NOVEL POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR RARE DECAY AND RARE PARTICLE DETECTION" project. The one-year project period runs from February 14, 2022 to February 13, 2023. Under this award, Photonlab will develop novel position sensitive photosensor technology to support rare decay and rare particle detection, in alignment with the Office of Science Financial...

This $397,005 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program supports the development, building, and commissioning of a modular, next-generation fast neutron detector array at Augustana College. The new detector, based on plastic scintillator and silicon photomultipliers, will significantly improve the precision of neutron detection and position measurement compared to current designs. This enhanced detector capability will enable more precise...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $120,650 from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to the University of California, Berkeley to develop optimized software for lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) computations on modern GPU-accelerated supercomputer systems. The project aims to advance the computational capabilities for studying the physics of hadron-hadron interactions, including...