Project Grant FA86552317030

This $690,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical physics research conducted by Professors Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia, Patrick Meade, and Leonardo Rastelli at Stony Brook University. The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, funds fundamental research activities aimed at advancing understanding of the laws of physics and exploring novel quantum field theory...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Institut De Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), a foreign-owned non-profit research center, to conduct R&D in the area of physics. The grant, which has a performance period from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will support ICFO's research and development efforts in diverse areas of photonics, including tackling important...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 in funding to Lawrence Technological University from August 15, 2023, through July 31, 2026. The research, led by Professor Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya, aims to gain further insight into charge-parity (CP) violation in theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This work may help resolve the matter-antimatter...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Yale University a $450,002 project grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support research and development in the area of physics from May 2021 through April 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise through maintaining a strong research...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, under CFDA Program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $252,000 over 3 years to support physics research and education activities at Siena College. The funding supports 3 main efforts: Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including probing for baryon number violating decays of the top quark and indirect detection of dark matter particles using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider....

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $440,666 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Princeton University for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DISCIPLINARY IMPROVEMENTS: FAIROS-HEP, A RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORK FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS." The award period is from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to foster the adoption of practices and cyberinfrastructure to enable reuse and reinterpretation...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded $640,000 to the University of California, San Diego under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on June 15, 2025, for a project concluding May 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, conducted jointly with General Atomics and the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility in Romania, focuses on developing gamma-ray sources through high-intensity...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $500,000 to California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. for the project "Experimental Studies into the Nature of the Higgs Mechanism and Searches for New Physics with the ATLAS Experiment" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support experimental research into the Higgs mechanism and searches for...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $413,981 to Vanderbilt University to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site through February 2025. The site offers undergraduate physics and astronomy students opportunities to work on forefront research projects with faculty in areas including astronomy, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and data science. Students gain access to major research facilities and can visit laboratories like...