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Indiana University South Bend

October 22 , 2009



NAME:
Indiana University South Bend

HOME TOWN:
South Bend, Indiana

MASCOT:
The Titans

SCHOOL COLORS:
Cream and Crimson

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
COUPP, PICASSO

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
COUPP

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
7

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
2004

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Acoustic sensor and preamp R&D and production. Encapsulation of various detector components for deployment in bubble chamber. Radon emanation and diffusion measurements.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Search for WIMP dark matter (COUPP and PICASSO experiments).

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND APART?
All of the best work is done by undergraduate students. We designed and built the sensors used to do the first-ever acoustic particle identification, distinguishing neutrons from alphas.

FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab


Front row, from left: Joshua Behnke; Phil Mark, applied math; Andrea Vollrath, local science teacher. Rear row, from left: Andrea Palenchar, physics major; Edward Behnke, engineer and physics bachelor of science; Ilan Levine, professor. Not pictured: Brendan Sweeney, physics major.