NAME:
The Ohio State University

HOME TOWN:
Columbus, Ohio

MASCOT:
Buckeyes

COLORS:
Scarlet and gray

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1970s

WORLDWIDE PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ANITA (Antarctica), ATLAS (CERN), CDF, CMS, DES, Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (NASA), Pierre Auger

NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS INVOLVED:
15 faculty, 20 postdocs, 25 graduate students

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Experimental focuses are collider physics, dark energy, dark matter, cosmic rays and ultra-high-energy neutrinos. Theoretical focuses are BSM (supersymmetry), string theory, heavy quarks and lattice QCD.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY APART?
We are unique in participating in three of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (CMS, ATLAS and ALICE). Also, our Center of Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) allows for interaction between the increasingly related fields of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

FUNDING AGENCIES:
DOE, NSF, NASA