NAME:
Michigan State University

HOME TOWN:
East Lansing, MI

MASCOT:
Sparty (Three time national champion mascot, voted “Buffest Mascot” by Muscle and Fitness Magazine.)

SCHOOL COLORS:
Green (Pantone 341, to be exact) and white

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
DZero, CDF, NOvA, ArgoNeut, ATLAS, Milagro/HAWC, E743, E629, E706, E594, E703, CTEQ and R110

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero, CDF, NOvA, ArgoNeuT, E743, E629, E706, E594, E703, E663, E585, E383, E743, E629, E382, E366, E319, E311, E281 and E12.

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Eight faculty, seven students, one postdoc and three engineers and computing professionals

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
Fermilab opened.

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
For more than 30 years, the MSU Group has specialized in Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 trigger electronics and software; calorimetry; large-scale scintillator/phototube production; and software design for Fermilab's neutrino, DZero and CDF projects. In addition, all faculty members have been leaders, spokespersons and conveners in technical and physics groups for all of their Fermilab experiments.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
W-mass determination, top quark pair physics, single-top physics, QCD jet physics, searches for new phenomena, Higgs Boson searches, photon/di-photon production, W+jets physics, underlying-event studies, neutrino oscillations, multiple phenomenology collaborations and statistical analyses.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY APART?
Excellent technical staff and support, outstanding collaboration between HEP experimenters and theorists (CTEQ home), a congenial and cooperative atmosphere within the HEP group and three decades of terrific support from the department and the university.

FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab