Division of Physics
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
(PNA)
CONTACTS
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/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide)
Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes
revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA)
(Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests
funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring
activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply
with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:
Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of
this new requirement).
DUE DATES
Full Proposal Target Date: September 30, 2009
Physics Target Date
Last Wednesday in September, Annually Thereafter
It is recommended that proposals come in near the general Physics Division target date.
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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