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$46,979,167

National Science Foundation·National Science Foundation

to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

researchactive
WORK BEGAN2022-01-01·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2121686_049
Award description

U.S. CMS OPERATIONS AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds U.S. operations and maintenance of the CMS particle detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Sub-sectors
particle-physicsinternational-collaborationfundamental-research
Why this matters

Maintains American leadership in frontier physics research and enables U.S. scientists to conduct discoveries at the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

U.S.–China competition angle

Demonstrates U.S. commitment to frontier physics research and international scientific cooperation amid Chinese investment in major competing facilities like the Circular Electron Positron Collider.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-11. Cost: $0.008754.

Period of performance
Start
2022-01-01
End
2027-12-31
Status
activein 549 days
Sources

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