NAME:
Harvard University

HOME TOWN:
Cambridge, MA

MASCOT:
Harvard Pilgrim

SCHOOL COLORS:
Crimson

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ATLAS, CDF, MINOS, NOvA and LUX

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
CDF, MINOS and NOvA

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Six total scientists and students

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1972

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
The Harvard group at CDF concentrates on top quark physics, which are the different measurements of top quark pair production cross sections and their properties. Harvard has also invested a lot of effort and gained expertise in hardware development and detector operations at CDF.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Harvard has a broad particle physics program, including physics analyses at CDF, different hardware and software projects on the ATLAS MUON spectrometer, the ATLAS trigger for the Large Hadron Collider upgrade, jet-energy scale corrections at ATLAS and getting ready for LHC data, in particular to perform analyses from first collisions in the following areas: top physics, Higgs and supersymmetry searches and W-and Z-related measurements.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT HARVARD APART?
Our group focuses on a wide variety of experimental research topics, and brings a range of expertise. Harvard University also has a strong group of theorists and phenomenologists, who work in close collaboration with us. We have a very strong electronics group, including technicians and engineers, who have taken a major part in designing and constructing infrastructure for particle experiments.

FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab