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The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle known and its mass ($m_{\rm top}$) is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model (SM). The $m_{\rm top}$ value affects theory predictions of particle production cross-sections required…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-16 Giorgio Cortiana

The heaviest known elementary particle today, the top quark, has been discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron proton antiproton collider at Fermilab. Recently, the CDF and D0 collaborations have studied the…

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

The heaviest known elementary particle today, the top quark, has been discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. Its high mass and short lifetime, shorter than the timescale for hadronization,…

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

We discuss 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 2007-05-23 C. -P. Yuan

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

Several major milestones and discoveries were attained during the lifetime of the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab, from 1987 to 2011. One of the most important was the discovery of the top quark in 1995, followed by an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Yvonne Peters

The mass of the top quark has been measured at Fermilab using the Tevatron ppbar collider to a precision of less than 1%. I discuss the individual measurements that go into this result and its impact on our understanding of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-06-09 Ulrich Heintz

The top quark has been discovered in 1995 at the CDF and DO experiments located in the Tevatron ring at the Fermilab laboratory. After more than a decade the Tevatron collider, with its center-of-mass energy collisions of 1.96 TeV, is still…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-10-22 Fabrizio Margaroli

In this paper I present the latest results on top quark physics from the DZero collaboration since the discovery of the top quark in March 1995. I summarize the discovery results, discuss progress since the discovery, and show how we can…

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

The Run I experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider discovered the top quark and provided first measurements of many of its properties. Run II (and eventually the LHC and NLC experiments) promise to extend our knowledge of the top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Elizabeth H. Simmons

A summary of the most recent results on top quark physics obtained at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, operating at a centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, is presented. Measurements of the top pair and single top quark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jeannine Wagner-Kuhr

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

Since the discovery of the top quark in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron proton antiproton collider, precise measurements of its mass are ongoing. Using data recorded by the D0 and CDF experiment, corresponding…

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

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