Title: Introduction to Top Quark Physics and the Measurement
Abstract: The third quark generation in the standard model (SM) of particle physics was predicted as an explanation for CP violation [1]. The lighter quark of the new generation, the bottom quark, was discovered in 1977 [2]. However, due to its large mass, the top quark was not measured until 1995, when the two Tevatron experiments Collision Detector at Fermilab (CDF) [3] and D0 [4] announced the discovery of a new quark in proton-antiproton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of $$\sqrt{s}={1.8}\,\text {TeV}$$ . The Tevatron accelerator was the only source of top quarks until the start-up of the LHC machine in 2010.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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