TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying the top quark
AU - Willenbrock, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the French National Agency for Valorization and Research (ANVAR) for financial support of this project.
PY - 2000/10
Y1 - 2000/10
N2 - The top quark, discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995, is the heaviest known elementary particle. Its large mass suggests that it may play a special role in nature. It behaves differently from the other known quarks due to both its large mass and its short lifetime. Thus far we have only crude measurements of the properties of the top quark, such as its mass, weak interactions, strong interactions, and decay modes. These measurements will be made more precise when the Tevatron begins operation again in 2001. I review the present status of these measurements, and discuss their anticipated improvement.
AB - The top quark, discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995, is the heaviest known elementary particle. Its large mass suggests that it may play a special role in nature. It behaves differently from the other known quarks due to both its large mass and its short lifetime. Thus far we have only crude measurements of the properties of the top quark, such as its mass, weak interactions, strong interactions, and decay modes. These measurements will be made more precise when the Tevatron begins operation again in 2001. I review the present status of these measurements, and discuss their anticipated improvement.
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U2 - 10.1103/revmodphys.72.1141
DO - 10.1103/revmodphys.72.1141
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034336307
SN - 0034-6861
VL - 72
SP - 1141
EP - 1148
JO - Reviews of Modern Physics
JF - Reviews of Modern Physics
IS - 4
ER -