Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics  (PNA)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Apply to PD 06-1643 as follows:

For full proposals submitted via FastLane: standard Grant Proposal Guidelines apply.
For full proposals submitted via Grants.gov: NSF Grants.gov Application Guide; A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov Guidelines apply (Note: The NSF Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf)

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SYNOPSIS

The particle and nuclear astrophysics program supports university research in many areas of particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics, including the study of ultra high energy particles reaching Earth from beyond our atmosphere and experiments or research and design projects for underground facilities.

Currently supported activities are: ultra high energy cosmic-ray and gamma-ray studies, the study of gamma-ray bursts, solar, underground and reactor neutrino physics, searches for the direct detection of Dark Matter and searches for neutrino-less double beta decay.

Funding is also provided for accelerator-based nuclear astrophysics studies of stellar processes, nucleosynthesis, and processes related to cosmology and the early universe.

Currently, the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) program is funding Research and Development studies for experiments that need to be located in an underground laboratory to reduce backgrounds.

It should be noted that proposals that are submitted to the PNA program and are requesting in excess of $1,000,000 may, at the discretion of the Program Officer, be subjected to an additional level of scrutiny in the form of a cost review which would take place before the annual PNA panel that meets to discuss all of the submitted proposals.

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