Project Grant DESC0025983

This $190,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of novel cavity haloscopes by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington to improve the scan rate of axion dark matter experiments by more than three orders of magnitude at frequencies between 4-7 GHz. The researchers will fabricate and test a full-sized science-grade cavity in an existing 250mK testbed to demonstrate...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research to develop a high-density, axially homogeneous helicon plasma source for the AWAKE (Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) project at CERN. The research aims to qualify the helicon plasma generation technology for application in next-generation particle accelerator systems, which could significantly reduce the size and cost of future linear accelerators...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to Yale University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the HAYSTAC Axion Dark Matter Experiment - Phase III. This effort aims to detect the theorized axion particle, which could comprise the unobserved "dark matter" that accounts for the majority of the mass in the universe. Key activities include upgrading the HAYSTAC detector system to expand its...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $457,380 provides funding through July 2025 for the HAYSTAC Quantum Enhanced collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Colorado. The award supports research seeking to discover the identity of dark matter through operation of one of the world's leading experiments searching for the hypothetical axion particle. UC Berkeley is responsible for research and development of tunable microwave cavities and...

This National Science Foundation award provides $450,000 to the University of Florida to perform final commissioning and data analysis for the first science runs of the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) II experiment. The ALPS II experiment, located at the DESY laboratory in Germany, is the world's most sensitive "light shining through a wall" experiment that searches for interactions between photons and hypothetical low-mass particles that may contribute to dark matter. This work under...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $540,000 to Yale University from July 2022 through June 2025 to develop optically levitated microspheres as new tools for precision searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The grantee will improve the sensitivity of optomechanical sensor arrays and extend them to search for interactions from dark matter and deviations from expected Standard Model forces at the microscopic...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Physics awarded a CAREER grant totaling $259,434 to The Johns Hopkins University (awarded May 1, 2026, with completion by July 31, 2027) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This award funds development of a precision laboratory experimental platform based on solid-state electron and nuclear spin ensembles and magnetic sensing technology to advance the search for axions and axion-like...

This $649,435 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a tabletop experiment at the University of Chicago with unprecedented sensitivity to hadronic CP violation. The experiment aims to develop a new approach using an optically-trapped, ultracold gas of the polar molecule francium-223 (223FrAg) to search for the Schiff moment of francium-223. This has the potential to increase sensitivity to nuclear charge distribution deformations by a factor of 1,000 beyond the...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Radiabeam Systems, LLC $399,110 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a Cold Plasma Cathode for High Resolution Condensed Matter Electron Spectroscopy. The project aims to deliver a new type of electron source for microscopy and spectroscopy that offers improved resolution over traditional thermionic electron sources. Work will be conducted between June 2022 through March 2023 in Santa Monica,...

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....