NAME:
Baylor University

HOME TOWN:
Waco, Texas

MASCOT:
Bear

SCHOOL COLORS:
Green and gold

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
CDF

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
CDF

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Two faculty, one postdoc and four graduate students

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
2005

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Installing, commissioning, and maintaining the Run 2B Level 1 Tracking Trigger (XFT)

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Higgs boson, QCD, searches for new phenomena

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY APART?
Baylor's experimental HEP group is relatively young, yet quickly growing. The group was formed in 2003 when Dr. Jay Dittmann, a Fermilab Lederman Fellow, was hired at Baylor.

FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab