Top-ophilia.

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关键词: Upsilon resonances;    Quarks;    Electric charges;    Isospin;    Mass;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008924222

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports 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 couldnt say, but we knew just how top events would look. We also knew that top events would be rareif the Tevatron could make them at alland that picking out the events would pose a real challenge for the experimenters and their detectors.