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Robert Craig Group is an American experimental particle physicist and professor of physics at the University of Virginia (UVA).^[1][2] His research has included work on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron, where he contributed to the observation of electroweak single top quark production and to the first evidence for a Higgs boson-like particle decaying to bottom quark pairs, and on the Mu2e, NOvA, DUNE, and Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) collaborations.

Group received a B.A. in physics from Erskine College in 1999 and an M.S. in physics from Florida State University in 2001, where he worked with Harrison B. Prosper. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Florida in 2006 under the supervision of Richard D. Field and Konstantin Matchev, with a thesis on inclusive jet production at CDF.^[1] His academic lineage is recorded in the Physics Tree academic genealogy database.^[3]

From 2006 to 2010 Group was a research associate at Fermilab, working on the CDF experiment, where he co-convened the single top and WH→ℓνbb̄ analysis groups. He contributed to CDF's 2009 observation of single top quark production.^[4]

He joined the UVA faculty as an assistant professor in 2010, holding a joint appointment as an associate scientist at Fermilab. He was promoted to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2023.^[1] As co-convener of the CDF Higgs analysis group (2011–2012), he took part in the combined CDF and DØ search that reported evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom–antibottom quark pair, published shortly after the Higgs boson discovery at the LHC.^[5] He also served on the CDF executive board (2011–2014).

At UVA, Group led the fabrication of the cosmic-ray veto detector for the Mu2e experiment, which searches for neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion, serving as a level-3 manager for the project.^[1] On NOvA he was computing convener (2012–2015) and leads searches for dark matter. Since 2018 he has worked on LDMX, a proposed accelerator-based light dark matter experiment, where he chairs the collaboration board (2023–2028). In 2026 he joined the institutional board of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Group serves on the editorial board of Physical Review Letters (2026–2028).^[6] He is a lifetime member of the American Physical Society (APS) and its Division of Particles and Fields, and has been active in the APS Southeastern Section (SESAPS) for more than a decade, including serving on the organizing committee of the 2016 meeting in Charlottesville, chairing sessions, judging student presentations, and serving as member-at-large (2024–2028). He is also a member of the APS Committee on Scientific Meetings (2026–2028).

A lifetime member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Group has served as chair of its Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics section and as vice president, president-elect and president (2024–2027).^[7] He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Virginia (2026–2031), where he co-founded the "Scientist Saturdays" program.^[8] Earlier, he was an elected member and secretary of the Fermilab Users' Executive Committee and helped organize its advocacy trips to Washington, D.C., in support of fundamental science funding.

Group has a long record of mentoring undergraduate, graduate and high-school students. In 2009 he received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science for his work with students on CDF.^[1] From 2011 to 2015 he directed a Jefferson Trust–funded program that sent UVA undergraduates to conduct research at Fermilab, and more than 25 UVA undergraduates have worked on the Mu2e cosmic-ray veto under his supervision. He was faculty advisor to UVA's chapter of the Society of Physics Students (2013–2021), was twice a finalist for the SPS Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award, and was an APS Career Mentoring Fellow in 2022. His students have received awards from SESAPS, the Virginia Academy of Science, and the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.

He received UVA's Cory Family Teaching Award in 2015 and designed the course Introduction to Python for Scientists and Engineers.

• CDF Collaboration, "Observation of Single Top Quark Production", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092002 (2009). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.092002
• CDF and D0 Collaborations, "Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron", Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071804 (2012). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071804
• CDF and D0 Collaborations, "Observation of s-channel production of single top quarks at the Tevatron", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231803 (2014). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231803

• Craig Group's home page, University of Virginia
• Craig Group at Physics Tree

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