NAME:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
HOME TOWN:
Urbana, IL
MASCOT:
None
SCHOOL COLORS:
Orange and blue
PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ATLAS, CLEO, Dark Energy Survey, LSST, FOCUS, CDF, Mu2e, G-2, Daya Bay, E-906 (SeaQuest) and USQCD.
EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
Dark Energy Survey, FOCUS, CDF, Mu2e, G-2, SeaQuest and USQCD.
SCIENTISTS, STUDENTS, ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS WORKING AT FERMILAB:
16 faculty, 10 engineers/technicians, seven postdocs, 13 graduate students and 13 undergraduates
COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
Fermilab began
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
CDF muon systems, CDF trigger, CDF central tracking chamber, G-2 design, Mu2e design, Dark Energy Survey electronics and ILC design, among many others.
PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Charm, bottom and top quark physics, heavy bosons, electroweak symmetry breaking, dark energy, rare muon decays and muon g-2.
WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN APART?
We have strong high- and medium-energy groups.
FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy and National Science Foundation
FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab
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Fermilab collaborators at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
University of Illinois scientists in the CDF trigger room. Top row from left: Ben Carls, Greg Thompson and Olga Norniella. Bottom: Heather Gerberich.
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