NAME:
University of Washington
HOME TOWN:
Seattle, Washington
MASCOT:
Husky
SCHOOL COLORS:
Purple and gold
PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
DZero and ATLAS
EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero
SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Three graduate students
COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1970
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Installation of Run 2 forward muon system; design and fabrication of SMT Layer 0, single top evidence, introducing boosted decision trees to DZero, the Level 3 DAQ/Trigger at DZero, b-tagging.
PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Low mass Higgs search.
WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT University of Washington APART?
Excellent graduate students.
FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation
FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab
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Top from left: John BackusMayes, current graduate student; Aran Garcia-Bellido, former post-doc, now DZERO member with U Rochester; and Gordon Watts, professor. Bottom from left: Anna Goussiou, professor; Henry Lubatti, professor; and Tyler Dorland, graduate student.
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