Properties of the top quark

2010/05/31 by Daniel Wicke
Physics and Astronomy · #Bottom quark #Large Hadron Collider #Omega baryon #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Tevatron #Top quark #Top quark condensate #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1627-0

published as Eur.Phys.J.C71:1627,2011 · Habilitation thesis, revised and updated for publication in EPJC

openalex publication_date 2011/05/01 · arxiv created 2011/09/16 · arxiv updated 2015/03/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

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 the verification of the expected properties have been an important topic of experimental top quark physics since. In this review the recent results on top quark properties obtained by the Tevatron experiments CDF and D0 are summarised. At the advent of the LHC special emphasis is given to the basic measurement methods and the dominating systematic uncertainties.

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