Project Grant FA86552317041

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,956 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), a subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of America, to develop "Fast and Dense Glass for High Energy Physics". The funding supports RMD's research into advanced radiation detection and measurement technologies, focusing on specialized areas such as spin-polarized electron sources, dual-mode non-hygroscopic ceramic scintillators, low-cost lightweight doped...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site in physics at the University of South Carolina. The $204,017 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, engages 10 undergraduate students per year for 10 weeks in various physics research projects, including particle, nuclear, condensed matter, theoretical and computational physics. The...

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...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by Professor Osherson's group at the University of Notre Dame. The primary objectives are to: Develop new algorithms for reconstructing the signature of two overlapping photons, which is relevant for both searches for new physics and Higgs precision measurements, with a focus on detecting axion-like particles at the Large Hadron...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to accelerate searches for physics beyond the Standard Model and development of the ATLAS pixel detector. Specifically, the University of Washington will conduct experimental particle physics research using...