Top-ophilia

Quigg, Chris

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

关键词: T Quarks Theory-Hep;    Theory-Hep;    Fermilab Tevatron;    Electric Charges;    72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields;   

DOI  :  10.2172/924922
RP-ID  :  FERMILAB-FN-0818-T
RP-ID  :  AC02-07CH11359
RP-ID  :  924922

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Almost from the moment in June 1977 when the discovery of the Upsilon resonance revealed the existence of what we now call the bottom quark, physicists began searching for its partner. Through the years, as we established the electric charge and weak isospin of the b-quark, and detected the virtual influence of its mate, it became clear that the top quark must exist. Exactly at what mass, we couldn't say, but we knew just how top events would look. We also knew that top events would be rare--if the Tevatron could make them at all--and that picking out the events would pose a real challenge for the experimenters and their detectors.