Project Grant DESC0020619

Scintilex, LLC received a $199,976 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop high performance lutetium yttrium garnet (LuYAG) crystal scintillating fibers for nuclear physics experiments. The grant-funded project will run through January 13, 2023. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and...

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. was awarded a $1.3 million Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science to develop organic glass scintillators for nuclear physics experiments from February 2021 through April 2024. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Radiation Monitoring Devices will...

Blueshift Optics LLC received a $199,479 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop organic glass-based plastic scintillators for nuclear physics detectors. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research that delivers scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, the company will work to...

Xtallized Intelligence Inc. was awarded a $199,999 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop fast, dense, non-hygroscopic scintillators for particle detectors. The grant-funded project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and...

Capesym Inc., doing business as Cape Simulations, was awarded a $1,292,952 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a high performance scintillator for nuclear physics research. The grant is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and national security. Under the award, Cape Simulations will...

Brimrose Technology Corporation was awarded a $199,905 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop novel doped Hg2Br2 as a new high-performance scintillator for nuclear physics research. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...

This $411,735 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop specialized germanium detectors and conduct experiments at the TRIUMF accelerator center in Canada. The goal is to search for a hypothesized boson particle in the decay of antimuons by focusing on low-energy signatures. The University of Chicago will receive the funding to build detectors with improved energy resolution of over three orders of magnitude compared to previous large scintillator calorimeters. These...

Sydor Instruments, LLC was awarded a $1,350,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop an ASIC-coupled microchannel plate for time resolved, single-photon soft x-ray detection. The grant is being used to deliver a scientific instrument that will enable new discoveries by allowing researchers to detect individual photons in the soft x-ray range of the electromagnetic spectrum with high temporal resolution. This work directly supports the...