Project Grant DESC0025611

This $135,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research at the University of New Mexico to probe early cosmological history using dark matter. Professor Rouzbeh Allahverdi will build new particle physics models of dark matter, study dark matter production in alternative thermal histories before one second after the Big Bang, and investigate novel predictions from different production mechanisms testable in...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $315,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund the research activities of Professor Matthew B. Kleban at New York University, focusing on three key areas: Investigating theories of hypothetical particles called axions to help understand features of the universe, such as dark energy and dark matter....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to reconstruct primordial density fluctuations using near-field cosmology. The key product of this $419,979 award, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, will be an efficient and accurate model for predicting the Milky...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $150,000 to Professor Paolo Gondolo at the University of Utah to conduct research on dark matter, dark energy, and fundamental physics. The goal is to advance scientific understanding of these mysterious components that make up a significant portion of the universe's mass-energy content. Specifically, the research will explore theoretical explanations for dark matter based on...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $173,064, supports research at Barry University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The awardee, Barry University, will construct new particle physics models to solve outstanding problems in dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and neutrino masses. These models can be tested using gravitational wave experiments to gain insight into the very early universe before one trillionth of a...

This $270,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to be conducted from August 15, 2022 through July 31, 2025. Professor Matias Zaldarriaga will improve theoretical understanding of the physical processes responsible for cosmological structure formation, and develop new modeling and analysis tools for galaxy surveys to advance constraints on the...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University to fund the research activities of Professors Marc Kamionkowski, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, and Ibrahima Bah. The 3-year grant, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports theoretical physics research at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and the formal mathematical tools underlying physical theories. The...

This three-year, four hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty-eight dollar Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research at Cornell University to combine measurements from cosmic microwave background experiments and galaxy clustering surveys to probe the nature of gravity, dark matter, and neutrinos in the universe. Key products will include the highest signal-to-noise pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements to date...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics provides $540,000 to Louisiana State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The award will support research into loop quantum gravity to further understanding of black hole evaporation, one of the most important outstanding problems in theoretical physics. Key research activities include studying the applicability of the weak gravity conjecture...