DOE Research in High Energy Physics

Sponsor Deadline: 

Oct 5, 2021

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Aug 31, 2021

Sponsor: 

Dept of Energy Office of Science

UI Contact: 

FY 2022 Research Opportunities in High Energy Physics HEP
DE-FOA-0002546
Office of Science - funding opportunities   https://science.osti.gov/hep/Funding-Opportunities?utm_medium=email&utm_...
PDF to guidelines:   https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2021/SC_FOA_0002546.pdf

Letter of Intent is encouraged - deadline August 31, 2021
Application deadline  October 5, 2021.

The HEP program focuses on three experimental scientific frontiers:

  1. The Energy Frontier - where powerful accelerators are used to create new particles, reveal their interactions, and investigate fundamental forces using highly sensitive experimental detectors;
  2. The Intensity Frontier - where intense particle beams and highly sensitive detectors are used to pursue alternate pathways to investigate fundamental forces and particle interactions by studying events that occur rarely in nature, and to provide precision measurements of these phenomena; and
  3. The Cosmic Frontier - where non-accelerator-based experiments use measurements of naturally occurring cosmic particles and observations of the universe to probe fundamental physics questions and offer new insight about the nature of dark matter, cosmic acceleration in the forms of dark energy and inflation in the early universe, neutrino properties, and other phenomena.

Together, these three interrelated and complementary discovery frontiers offer the opportunity to answer some of the most basic questions about the world around us.
Also integral to the mission of HEP are crosscutting research areas that enable new scientific opportunities by developing the necessary tools and methods for discoveries:

  • Theoretical High Energy Physics, where the vision and mathematical framework for understanding and extending the knowledge of particles, forces, space-time, and the universe are developed;
  • Accelerator Science and Technology Research and Development, where the technologies and basic science needed to design, build, and operate the accelerator facilities essential for making new discoveries are developed; and
  • Detector Research and Development, where the basic science and technologies needed to design and build high energy physics detectors essential for making new discoveries are developed.

The three frontiers and the three crosscutting research areas are collectively the six core research subprograms supported by HEP. All applications should address specific research goals in one or more of the six research subprograms, explain how the proposed research or technology development supports the broad scientific objectives and mission of the HEP program, and align with its priorities.

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