
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday,
23 March 2005
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker:
Joao Guimaraes da Costa, Harvard
Title:
Top Quark, The Teenage Years
Abstract:
The top quark has been discovered ten years ago at the Tevatron
Collider at Fermilab. The study of the top quark properties has been
hampered by the small data samples collected by CDF and D0 at the Tevatron.
However, a new era of high-statistics top quark physics is just starting and
full reconstruction of top decays will be pivotal. New algorithms used for
the identification of multiple b-quarks have recently been developed at CDF
and are being used in the top quark analysis. In this talk, I describe the
latest measurements of the top quark pair-production cross section and top
mass measurements at CDF using these algorithms. I will finish with some
prospects for the LHC where millions of top quark events will be collected.
Host: A. Lankford