Top quark physics at the Tevatron

✍ Scribed by I. Iashvili

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 660 KB
• Volume: 117
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)90531-7

✦ Synopsis

After a brief overview of top quark physics at the Tevatron collider in Run I, we discuss upgrades of the CDF and D detectors for Tevatron Run II which started in Spring of 2001. We present the rst preliminary Run II results on the production of W=Z bosons + jets, which constitute the dominant background to top quark production. Preliminary estimates of the detector performances relevant t o b-tagging are presented.