Project Grant DESC0025657

This $299,997 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research on the structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) at Stony Brook University. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Computations of nucleon electromagnetic form factors over a wide range of high momentum to enable comparison with recent experimental data from the Jefferson Lab. This work...

This $239,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance theoretical and phenomenological studies of the three-dimensional momentum and spin structure of the nucleon in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The primary objectives are to discover the internal landscape of the nucleon, provide analysis and explanation of existing data, and make predictions for future measurements at...

This $375,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports experimental studies of the 3D structure of nucleons and nuclei at the Jefferson Lab in Virginia. The key objectives are to unravel the mysteries of the strong nuclear force that binds atomic nuclei and generates their mass, addressing several priorities outlined in the 2023 NSAC Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Science. The program will use world-leading...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $189,036 supports research into electron and neutrino scattering from light nuclei through August 2025. The award is made through the NSF Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The principal investigator at The Ohio State University will investigate the structure of nuclei and nucleons through electron and neutrino scattering experiments. Theoretical calculations will be performed to identify...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to Duquesne University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the internal structure of the proton using electron beam experiments. The grant supports the principal investigator and Duquesne undergraduate students in conducting research to study the partonic distributions and origin of the proton's spin through polarized electron scattering measurements at the...

This $299,972 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports nuclear physics research and education at the University of Connecticut (UConn). The goal is to study the gluon structure within atomic nucleons using the GlueX experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Specifically, UConn researchers will be responsible for providing the source of polarized photons that will be used to probe the gluon...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $570,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Christopher Newport University (CNU) to support research on the internal structure of protons and neutrons. The research group at CNU will conduct experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory, involving the scattering of polarized electrons from protons and neutrons to measure their electric and magnetic properties. This research aims to further the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $565,000 Project Grant to the Catholic University of America (CUA) to conduct research advancing the understanding of the quark-gluon structure of the fundamental building blocks of the atomic nucleus - protons, neutrons, pions, and kaons. The award, funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), has two primary goals: 1) to deepen the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) understanding of pions and kaons, and 2) to provide...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $193,628 to Lebanon Valley College is focused on advancing the understanding of hadronic structure through spin observables. The key products to be delivered include: Performing Bayesian Monte Carlo global analyses of data from various particle physics experiments to probe the 3-dimensional motion of partons (quarks and gluons) inside hadrons and how the proton's...

This $150,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will support a collaborative research effort to investigate the structure of the Hamiltonian for a neutrino interacting with a deuteron. The goal is to construct a two-nucleon-neutrino current that can be used in relativistic neutrino-nucleus scattering calculations. The research involves partners from the University of Iowa (US), Jagiellonian...