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The potential for top quark physics of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is surveyed ranging from top quark "re-discovery" and its use as a calibration tool to initial and later stage measurements.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Francesco Spanò

First observed in 1995, the top quark is the third-generation up-type quark of the standard model of particle physics (SM). The CDF and D\O\ collaborations have analyzed many \ttbar\ events produced by the Tevatron collider, studying many…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Karolos Potamianos

Almost 20 years after its discovery, the top quark is still an interesting particle, undergoing precise investigation of its properties. For many years, the Tevatron proton antiproton collider at Fermilab was the only place to study top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Reinhild Yvonne Peters

The top quark, discovered in 1995 at the Fermilab Tevatron collider from CDF and D0 experiments, remains by far the most interesting particle to test standard model because of its large mass and unique properties. Having data collected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Hyun Su Lee

We discuss the physics of the top quark at the Fermilab Tevatron. By the year 2000, many properties of the top quark can be measured at the Tevatron.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 C. -P. Yuan

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to provide proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, yielding millions of of top quark events. The top-physics potential of the two general purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-10 Jorgen D'hondt

The top quark, discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995, is the heaviest known elementary particle. Its large mass suggests that it may play a special role in nature. It behaves differently from the other known quarks due both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Willenbrock

This review summarizes the program in the physics of the top quark being pursued at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. More than a decade after the discovery of the top quark at the two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-15 Marc-André Pleier

Top quark physics will be a prominent topic in Standard Model physics at the LHC. The enormous amount of top quarks expected to be produced will allow to perform a wide range of precision measurements. An overview of the planned top physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Weiser

The High-Luminosity LHC is expected to provide $3 ab^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. As a result billions of events containing top quarks will be detected at the CMS and ATLAS experiments, allowing for precise measurements of the top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-16 Michele Selvaggi

The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, and it is often seen as a window to search for new physics processes in particle physics. A large program to study the top-quark properties has been performed both at the Tevatron and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-05 Frederic Deliot , Nicholas Hadley , Stephen Parke , Tom Schwarz

After the Higgs boson discovery in 2012, the investigation of its properties and compatibility with the standard model predictions is central to the physics program of the LHC experiments. Likewise, the study of the top quark is still…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez

The top quark, discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, is the heaviest known elementary particle today. Due to its high mass and short lifetime, the top quark plays a special role in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Peters

An overview of recent results on top quark properties and interactions is given, obtained using data collected with the CMS and ATLAS experiments during the years 2011 and 2012 at 7 TeV and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energies. Measurements of top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Carlo Battilana

The Large Hadron Collider LHC is a top quark factory: due to its high design luminosity, LHC will produce about 200 millions of top quarks per year of operation. The large amount of data will allow to study with great precision the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 Marcello Barisonzi

The ATLAS and CMS experiments are now in their final installation phase and will be soon ready to study the physics of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC, by producing 2 $t\bar{t}$ events per second, will provide…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-06-13 Pamela Ferrari

The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle observed to date. Its large mass of about 173 GeV/c^2 makes the top quark act differently than other elementary fermions, as it decays before it hadronises, passing its spin information on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-06 Joseph R. Incandela , Arnulf Quadt , Wolfgang Wagner , Daniel Wicke

The top quark was discovered in 1995. The top quark mass is now well measured at the Tevatron, with uncertainty getting below 1% of the top mass. The world average from last year was 170.9 $\pm$ 1.8 GeV/$c^2$. The new CDF measurement is 172…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-16 Yen-Chu Chen

While the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, has been discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations in ttbar events, it took 14 more years until the observation of single top quark production. In this article, we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Yvonne Peters

Discovered in 1995 by CDF and D0 at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, the top quark remains interesting to test the Standard Model. Having collected more than 7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity with both experiments until today, several top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Yvonne Peters