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Baylor University
HOME TOWN: Waco, Texas
MASCOT: Bear
SCHOOL COLORS: Green and gold
PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS: CDF
EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB: CDF
SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB: Two faculty, one postdoc and four graduate students
COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE: 2005
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Installing, commissioning, and maintaining the Run 2B Level 1 Tracking Trigger (XFT)
PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS: Higgs boson, QCD, searches for new phenomena
WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY APART? Baylor's experimental HEP group is relatively young, yet quickly growing. The group was formed in 2003 when Dr. Jay Dittmann, a Fermilab Lederman Fellow, was hired at Baylor.
FUNDING AGENCY: Department of Energy
FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY: Fermilab
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