
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2005
Time:
2:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker:
Peter Wittich, University of Pennsylvania
Title:
Measuring Top Quark Cross section with Dilepton Events
Abstract:
Almost ten years ago, the top quark was discovered at the Tevatron
collider at Fermilab. With the small samples acquired at that time, we knew
little about the top quark except that it is surprisingly massive. Now, we
are entering a stage where we are able to study this quark with large
samples and precision measurements. I describe one of the first such
measurements performed at CDF, the production of top quark pairs that decay
into events with two leptons in the final state.
Host: A. Lankford