Tevatron top quark legacy : from precision measurements to new physics smoking gun ?

par Dr Fabrizio Margaroli (Purdue University)

jeudi 7 avr. 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre (CPPM)

The discovery of the top quark in 1995 opened a whole new sector of investigation of the Standard Model; today top quark physics remains a key priority of the Tevatron program. Some of the measurements of top quark properties, for example its mass, will be a long-standing legacy. The observation of electroweak top quark production allows deeper understanding of the top quark, and paves the way to the Higgs hunt. The recent evidence of an anomalously large charge asymmetry in top quark events suggests that new physics could couple preferably with top quarks. I will summarize this long chapter of particle physics history and discuss the road the top quark is highlighting for the LHC program.

Slides margaroli2011.pdf