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High Energy Physics - Experiment
Title: Top Quark Physics at the Tevatron
(Submitted on 13 Sep 1998 (v1), last revised 28 Oct 1998 (this version, v2))
Abstract: 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 particle, especially its mass and production cross section. In this article, we review the status of top quark physics as studied by the two collaborations using the p-pbar collider data at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV. The combined measurement of the top quark mass, m_t = 173.8 +- 5.0 GeV/c^2, makes it known to a fractional precision better than any other quark mass. The production cross sections are measured as sigma (t-tbar) = 7.6 -1.5 +1.8 pb by CDF and sigma (t-tbar) = 5.5 +- 1.8 pb by D0. Further investigations of t-tbar decays and future prospects are briefly discussed.
Submission history
From: Scott Snyder [view email][v1] Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:53:09 GMT (627kb)
[v2] Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:59:22 GMT (625kb)