Project Grant DESC0026320

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 $300,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports fundamental research in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) using lattice QCD simulations with advanced computational methods. The research will deliver theoretical predictions and computational modeling of multi-hadron interactions, including nucleon-pion scattering, nucleon-nucleon interactions, and three-meson systems....

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 $270,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports the development of theoretical models and simulations to improve understanding of the formation and dynamical properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an extreme state of matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Specifically, the project aims to enhance the existing ZPC parton cascade model by...

The National Science Foundation awarded $600,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Carnegie Mellon University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The award will support research using large-scale computing resources to study multi-hadron interactions through lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations with the stochastic laph method. Key products include computations of nucleon-pion, nucleon-nucleon, and nucleon-hyperon scattering phase shifts...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $690,000 supports research into quantum transport and hadronization in quark-gluon plasma at Texas A&M University from July 2022 through June 2025. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Principal Investigator Dr. Smith and his team will investigate how the properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma and its transition into hadrons emerge from quantum chromodynamics theory. They will employ quantum...

Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded $960K to the University of Maryland, College Park through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a three-year project (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028). Principal Investigators Zackaria Chacko, Anson Hook, and Raman Sundrum will develop and study theoretical extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics and cosmology. The research will provide theoretical guidance for experimental...

This $383,366 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support fundamental physics research at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW). The primary goals are to explore low-energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) symmetries and search for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics through experiments studying the neutral pion, eta, and eta-prime decays. The project includes two main experiments: PRIMEX-ETA,...

The University of Cincinnati will receive $600,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct experimental flavor physics research from August 2022 through July 2025. As a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, the University will help improve the novel all-software trigger recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider and focus on GPU-based software trigger and charm quark physics. The research aims to...

The University of Connecticut was awarded a three-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on "3D PARTONIC STRUCTURE OF HADRONS" under the Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research from September 2021 through August 2024 aimed at advancing understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing knowledge of the three-dimensional subatomic structure...