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Thinking About Top: Looking Outside The Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The top quark is by far the heaviest known fermion [1]. In consequence, experiment is just beginning to explore its properties, and some of them may yet prove to be distinctly non-standard. The very size of the top quark's mass even hints at the possibility of a special role for top in electroweak symmetry breaking. This talk examines the top quark in the context of physics beyond the standard model, and discusses how Run II can help elucidate the true nature of top.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908511,
  title  = {Thinking About Top: Looking Outside The Standard Model},
  author = {Elizabeth H. Simmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908511},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, 13 figures, talk presented at the Thinkshop on Top Quark Physics at Run II, 16-18 October, 1998, Fermilab