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Johns Hopkins University

September 9, 2010



NAME:
The Johns Hopkins University

HOME TOWN:
Baltimore, Maryland

MASCOT:
Blue jay

SCHOOL COLORS:
The university's official colors are gold and sable. Its athletic colors are Columbia blue and black.

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
Babar, CDF and CMS

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
CDF and CMS

NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Two faculty, two postdocs and one graduate student

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1969

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
Major hardware contributions include vertex detectors for CDF (SVX, SVX', SVX II) and CMS (forward pixels) while a major software contribution for CDF and CMS is Frontier, which allows worldwide database access.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS: Heavy quark physics, both bottom and top, and the search for the Higgs boson and "beyond the Standard Model" particles.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APART?
Our experimental group has a very strong synergy with our theoretical particle physics group.

FUNDING AGENCIES:
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy

Johns Hopkins University