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The Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab with its centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV is currently the only source for the production of top quarks. Its increased luminosity and centre of mass energy in Run II allow both collider…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Marc-André Pleier

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

Since its discovery in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, the top quark has undergone intensive studies. Besides the Tevatron experiments, with the start of the LHC in 2010 a top quark factory started…

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

We review the field of top-quark physics with an emphasis on experimental techniques. The role of the top quark in the Standard Model of particle physics is summarized and the basic phenomenology of top-quark production and decay is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-07-10 Frederic Deliot , Douglas Glenzinski

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 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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Elizabeth H. Simmons

We report a selection of the most recent CDF and D0 results on top quark and W and Z boson properties, based on Tevatron Run 2 data. The large datasets of W and Z bosons allow a very precise measurement of the W mass and detailed studies of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sandra Leone

(Report of the Top Physics working group at the 1996 DPF/DPB Snowmass workshop, to appear in the proceedings). We discuss the study of the top quark at future experiments and machines. Top's large mass makes it a unique probe of physics at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 Raymond Frey , David Gerdes , John Jaros , Steve Vejcik

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 discovery of the top quark in 1995, by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron, marked the dawn of a new era in particle physics. Since then, enormous efforts have been made to study the properties of this remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-25 P. Bhat , H. Prosper , S. Snyder

Top quarks are produced at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab and at the Large Hadron (proton-proton) Collider at CERN in two ways: as quark-antiquark pairs, and singly. For each mode, the cross sections and future…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Heinson

The top quark is by far the most massive fundamental particle observed so far, and the study of its properties is interesting for several reasons ranging from its possible special role in electroweak symmetry breaking to its sensitivity to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gervasio Gomez

The LHC will be a top-quark factory. With 80 million pairs of top quarks and an additional 34 million single tops produced annually at the designed high luminosity, the properties of this particle will be studied to a great accuracy. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Tao Han

The top quark is the most recently discovered of the standard model quarks, and studies of its properties are important tests of the standard model. Many measurements of top properties have been produced by the CDF and D0 collaborations,…

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

We discuss the physics of single-top quark production and decay at hadron colliders, such as the Tevatron, the \tevstar~and the LHC. Our study includes how to measure the mass and the width of the top quark produced from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas O. Carlson

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

This paper presents the latest measurements of the properties of the top quark as determined by the DZero and CDF collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar collider. Both experiments have studied the all-hadronic decay mode of ttbar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. P. Heinson

I will briefly review the physics of top quark at high energy colliders. A new discovery of single-top event at the Fermilab Tevatron is expected. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider, detailed top quark properties can be measured and new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. -P. Yuan

The production of top quark in electroweak processes was first observed in 2010 at the Tevatron. Since then it has been carefully studied at both LHC and Tevatron. Single top production proceeds through different channels and allows a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-15 Giorgio Chiarelli

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