Project Grant DESC0025004

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $736,406 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study quantum chromodynamics at the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN. The research aims to advance understanding of how strong force bound states like protons are created and how their dynamics evolve. Key activities include: Measurements comparing hadron production from light...

This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a research team at Northern Illinois University (NIU) working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The key objectives of this 3-year award include: Studying Higgs boson decays into photon pairs to search for new particles and production of Higgs boson pairs from proton-proton collisions Developing...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics will support a new research group at Northern Illinois University (NIU) to work on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The key objectives of the research are to extend the current ATLAS search program for physics beyond the Standard Model, with a focus on novel vector-like quark searches and analyses of heavy vector resonances. Additionally, the award includes significant...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research program at the University of Cincinnati focused on probing the Standard Model of particle physics using the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The $130,000 award will fund the University of Cincinnati's efforts to make the first measurements of the helicity of W bosons and the production of W boson pairs in the forward region at the...

This $875,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) will support research on the multidimensional structure of the nucleon using generalized parton distributions from novel hard exclusive Compton-like measurements at the Jefferson Laboratory Hall C. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of nuclear physics and potentially...

This $170,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant funds research at the University of Chicago to address the longstanding question of why evidence of "beyond the Standard Model" particles has not yet been observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The research aims to enable new discoveries by developing unconventional search strategies and next-generation pixel...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support fundamental and applied research in high energy particle physics conducted by the University of Chicago. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Novel search strategies and cutting-edge pixel detector development to enable the discovery of undiscovered particles at or around the energy scales probed by the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $301,810 to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas to support the mentoring of undergraduate students as researchers and preparing them for graduate school and/or industry. Through this 3-year award, 2-3 undergraduate students per summer will work onsite at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to assist in hardware and software projects for ongoing...

This $170,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research on the Higgs boson and the search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the ATLAS experiment. The award funds the research activities of the California State University (CSU) ATLAS group, including principal investigators at CSU Sacramento and CSU East Bay, along with undergraduate student researchers. The key...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the participation of U.S. scientists in the LHCB experiment at CERN. The grant funds facility operations, maintenance, and computing support to enable research that explores "beyond the Standard Model physics" and aims to identify new phenomena that could reveal the existence of new particles or forces. The award...