NAME:
University of Minnesota Duluth
HOME TOWN:
Duluth, Minnesota
MASCOT:
Bulldog
SCHOOL COLORS:
Maroon and gold
PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
MINOS, MINERvA, NOvA and HALO.
EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
MINOS, MINERvA and NOvA.
SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Two professors and about a dozen master's and undergraduate students
COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
2000
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
MINOS detectors construction and operation, MINOS cosmic ray and neutrino cross-sections analyses, MINERvA test beam and NOvA DAQ.
RESEARCH FOCUS:
Neutrino detection, particle astrophysics and neutrino interactions.
WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH APART?
Being a primarily undergraduate institution doing experimental high-energy physics. Younger students get a lot of experience and make valuable contributions before they even get to a Ph.D. program.
FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation
FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab
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