The Baylor University experimental high energy physics group was established in 2003 when Professor J. Dittmann joined Baylor. Since then, the group produced a variety of physics results and expanded its size. The group currently consists of nine members: two faculty members, two research associates, and five graduate students. Additionally, since 2003, 11 undergraduate students have joined the HEP group and have contributed in many significant ways, primarily through summer research internships.

Today, the Baylor HEP group is very active on two international collaboration experiments; the CDF experiment at Fermilab and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN. The Fermilab Tevatron accelerator located in suburb of Chicago collides protons and antiprotons at 2 TeV. The CDF experiment is one of the major experiments consisting of more than 600 physicists studying various physics processes from high energy proton-antiproton collisions. One of the major results CDF reported is the discovery of the sixth quark, the top quark, in 1995. In addition to that, every year it has been reporting important physics results, including the discoveries of new B-hadrons and search for the Higgs boson.

In Nov 2009, after many years of preparation, the Large Hadron Collider started its operation. It is currently colliding protons at 7 TeV, and it is eventually going to collide them at 14 TeV, highest energy that we have ever achieved by accelerators. The CMS experiment is one of the main experiment at the LHC, consisting of about 3000 physicists. We expect exciting results from this new experiment in the coming years.