Project Grant DESC0021459

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...

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $550,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental scientific research at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to advance national energy, economic, and security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries. The research focuses on the "Cosmic Frontier" and will be conducted from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The award includes two sub-grants....

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...

This $104,267 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to accelerate discoveries in high-energy physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by developing next-generation pixel detectors and enabling unconventional search strategies. The key objectives are to address why evidence of "beyond the Standard Model" particles has not yet been observed, and to upgrade the ATLAS experiment's tracking and data analysis capabilities...

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...

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...

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 $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...

This Project Grant award, valued at $337,678 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to advance germanium (Ge)-based detector technology and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to enhance the detection of low-energy particles and improve the accuracy of medical imaging. Led by the University of South Dakota, this collaborative research project involves six institutions in South Dakota, including PhD-granting universities and...