Measurements of Top Quark Properties at the Tevatron
Description
The top quark was discovered in 1995 at Fermilab by the D 0 and Cdf collaborations in Run 1. of the Tevatron collider. Being the last remaining and most elusive member of the 3 generation family of quarks predicted by the Standard Model (S M) of particle interactions, its discovery was an extraordinary scientific achievement and a major confirmation of the theory. While the discovery was based on a handful of events corresponding to about 100 pb-1 of integrated luminosity per experiment, the results presented in this talk are based on substantially more data corresponding to as much as 4.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from Run II of the Tevatron. The significant increase in statistics in Run 2. allows more precise determinations of previously measured properties (e.g. mass) and first-time determinations of other properties never before measured. We have presented the latest measurements from the Tevatron of various properties of the top quark, both fundamental and those related to production and decay. So far, the observed top quark seems consistent with S M predictions. With the increasing data in the coming year, these measurements will continue improving, allowing the top quark and the S M to be tested more stringently.
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Sissa
- Imprint Place
- Trieste (Italy)
- Imprint Title
- HCP 2009
- Imprint Pagination
- [73 p.]
- Series
- PoS Proceedings of Science
- Journal Page Range
- 7 p.
- ISSN
- 1824-8039
Conference
- Title
- 20. Hadron Collider Physics Symposium
- Dates
- 16-20 Nov 2009
- Place
- Evian (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 41107206
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- BRANCHING RATIO; CROSS SECTIONS; FERMILAB TEVATRON; HELICITY; HIGGS BOSONS; SPIN; STANDARD MODEL; T QUARKS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARKS; SYNCHROTRONS; TOP PARTICLES; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS