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The top quark is the heaviest of the six quarks of the Standard Model. Precise knowledge of its mass is important for imposing constraints on a number of physics processes, including interactions of the as yet unobserved Higgs boson. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 Angela Barbaro Galtieri , Fabrizio Margaroli , Igor Volobouev

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

The discovery of the top quark in 1995 opened a whole new sector of investigation of the Standard Model; today top quark physics remains a key priority of the Tevatron program. Some of the measurements of top quark properties, for example…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 Fabrizio Margaroli

As the heaviest known fundamental particle, the top quark has taken a central role in the study of fundamental interactions. The top quark mass is a fundamental parameter of the standard model which places constraints on the Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-03 Michele Gallinaro

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

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

An overview of the most recent results on top quark physics obtained using proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS and the CMS experiments at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy is given. Measurements for inclusive and differential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Pedro Silva

The top quark is the heaviest known fundamental particle. As it is the only quark that decays without hadronisation, it provides the unique opportunity to probe the properties of bare quarks at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This article…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-26 Nello Bruscino

Almost two decades after its discovery at Fermilab's Tevatron collider experiments, the top quark is still under the spotlight due to its connections to some of the most interesting puzzles in the Standard Model. The Tevatron has been shut…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 Fabrizio Margaroli

The top quark was discoverd at the CDF and D0 experiments in 1995. As the partner of the bottom quark its properties within the Standard Model are fully defined. Only the mass is a free parameter. The measurement of the top quark mass and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniel Wicke

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

The mass of the top quark is a fundamental parameter of the standard model and has to be determined experimentally. In these proceedings, I review recent measurements of the top quark mass in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt s=7,~8,$ and 13 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-20 Oleg Brandt

First observed in 1995, the top quark is one of a pair of third-generation quarks in the Standard Model of particle physics. It has charge +2/3e and a mass of 171.4 GeV, about 40 times heavier than its partner, the bottom quark. The CDF and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 A. P. Heinson

The top quark is the most recently discovered of the standard model quarks, and because of its very large mass, studies of the top quark and its interactions are important both as tests of the standard model and as searches for new physical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 David J. Mietlicki

Recent measurements of top-quark properties at the LHC and at the Tevatron are presented. The results include precision measurements of standard model parameters, such as the top-quark mass, the measurement of angular distributions as well…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-24 Andreas B. Meyer

The top quark, discovered at the Tevatron in 1995, is a very interesting particle. Precise measurement of the top properties using large data samples will allow stringent tests of the Standard Model and offer a unique window on new physics.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Azzi

The top quark is the most recently discovered quark. Relatively little is known about its properties so far. Due to its very large mass of about $175 \rm GeV/c^2$, the top quark behaves differently from all other quarks and provides a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnulf Quadt

Experimental measurements of the properties of the top quark have improved and will continue to improve significantly, with the excellent operation of the CDF and D0 experiments and the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider at the Fermi National…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 Evelyn J. Thomson

The top-quark is a fundamental element of the physics program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We review the current status of the top-quark measurements performed by ATLAS and CMS experiments in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-01-31 Luca Fiorini

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