DOE announces $75 million in funding for high-energy physics research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced $75 million in funding for 77 research projects at 59 institutions of higher learning that will advance high-energy physics research, including span colliders, neutrinos, dark matter, and dark energy.

The projects were selected through a competitive peer review process, and the funding is being administered through the Office of High Energy Physics within the DoE Office of Science. Some of the projects will advance particle physics theory, sophisticated particle accelerator, and detector technologies.

“Advancing research and development in high energy physics is critical to America’s leadership in science and innovation,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said. “These projects, spanning both theory and experiment, will involve important international collaborations as well as keep American scientists in the forefront of efforts to study and solve the mysteries of our universe.”

The funding will support experimental work on neutrinos at DoE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the search for dark matter a mile beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills, dark energy observatory data analysis, and exploration of data collected from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.