NAME:
University of Notre Dame

HOME TOWN:
South Bend, Ind.

MASCOT:
Leprechaun

SCHOOL COLORS:
Blue and gold

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
Early 1970s

WORLDWIDE PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
BaBar (SLAC), CMS, Double Chooz (IN2P3), DZero, ILC, LBNE, SuperB (INFN)

NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS INVOLVED:
10 faculty, two research faculty, four postdocs, 16 graduate students

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Experiment: hadron collider physics (CMS and DZero), electron-positron collider physics (BaBar and SuperB), neutrino physics (Double Chooz and LBNE)
Theory: heavy-flavor phenomenology, Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology, hadron collider phenomenology

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT NOTRE DAME APART?
We have a strong hadron collider program with a long history of involvement in hadronic and electromagnetic calorimetry, trigger development and offline software. Recently we have been part of the Higgs discovery analysis at CMS and SUSY searches. We also founded and maintain a very successful outreach program called QuarkNet for mentoring high school teachers and students.

FUNDING AGENCIES:
DOE, NSF

High-energy physics group at the University of Notre Dame.