NAME:
Indiana University, Bloomington

HOME TOWN:
Bloomington, IN

MASCOT:
Hoosiers

SCHOOL COLORS:
Cream and crimson

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ATLAS, DZero, Fermilab Lattice Group, HEAT, HotQCD, ILC, JDEM/IDECS, MILC, MiniBooNE, MINOS, MIPP, NOvA, SciBooNE

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero, ILC, JDEM/IDECS, MiniBooNE, MINOS, MIPP, NOvA

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
13 faculty, 14 scientists/post-docs and 13 students

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1972

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Muon and central tracking detectors for DZero Run 1 and 2 and leadership of heavy flavor analysis. Lattice QCD studies of spectrum, heavy-light hadrons and high-temperature QCD. On-board calibration for JDEM/ IDECS. MiniBooNE DAQ and charged and neutral-current elastic scattering analyses. Reconstruction, calibration and analysis of MINOS and MIPP. Development of the NOvA proposal and its scintillator and electronics systems. Theory and phenomenology of CPT-violating and other extensions to the Standard Model.

RESEARCH FOCUS:
Heavy flavors, electroweak interactions, QCD, neutrinos, dark energy, cosmic rays, Standard Model extensions.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY APART?
Ours is one of the strongest neutrino groups in the U.S. and we have strengths on all frontiers: energy, intensity, and cosmic. We are a unique collaboration between physics and astronomy, experiment and theory.

FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy and National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab