Top quark and electroweak results from CDF

Conference · Tue Nov 04 04:00:00 EST 2003

OSTI ID:816868

Leone, Sandra ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

In 2001 the Tevatron run II began, after a five year period of significant upgrade of the accelerator itself and of the experiments CDF and D0. After a detector commissioning run, the CDF experiment is now taking high quality data with all subsystems functional. We report in this talk the first preliminary CDF results on top quark and W/Z boson properties, based on run II data. The top quark, discovered in 1995 at the Tevatron, has proven to be a very interesting particle. Its properties allow to perform stringent tests of the Standard Model (SM) and to search for new physics through a deviation from SM predictions. We give here some expectations of what Tevatron run II will ultimately provide to our understanding of matter.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 816868
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-03/326-E
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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