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State University of New York at Stony Brook

August 13, 2009



NAME:
State University of New York at Stony Brook

HOME TOWN:
Stony Brook, New York

MASCOT:
The university mascot is the Seawolf, but the High Energy Group mascot is the friendly DZero dog.

SCHOOL COLORS:
Red and white

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
Currently DZero, ATLAS, SuperK and T2K

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero. Past experiments include: CZero internal target diffractive scattering; 15-foot and 30-inch bubble chambers with neutrino and hadron beams; E288, E494 and E605 studying dihadrons and dimuons.

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Three students, two postdocs and frequent travellers.

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
About 1972.

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
First ring imaging Cerenkov detector (E605), discovery of the Upsilon (E288); central drift chamber, calorimeter electronics, layer 0 silicon detector and silicon track trigger (DZero). Also provided a DZero spokesperson; physics convener; physics group leaders for electroweak, b-physics, new phenomena and QCD groups. Leading roles in top quark discovery, W boson mass and Bs mixing measurements.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Constraining the Standard Model through measurements of the W boson mass and direct searches for the Higgs boson. Also, studying the symmetries and new states in hadrons containing bottom quarks.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT CAMBRIDGE APART?
A broad program touching most aspects of physics at the energy frontier as well as neutrino oscillations and proton decay.

FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab



Left to right at the DZero assembly building: Yuan Hu, postdoc; Feng Guo, graduate student; Jun Guo, graduate student; Dmitri Tsybychev, faculty; Ken Herner, graduate student at time of photo; John Hobbs, faculty; Emanuel Strauss, graduate student; Dean Schamberger, senior scientist; Paul Grannis, faculty; and Junjie Zhu, postdoc. Not pictured: Subhendu Chakrabarti, postdoc; Michael Rijssenbeek, faculty; and Katy Tschann-Grimm, graduate student.