Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Not Your Dad's Top Quark Activity
They announced it this past Friday at Fermilab. A press release went out today. And, at the Boston QuarkNet meeting tonight, mentors Darien Wood and Ela Barberis explained what it meant.
"It" is the first evidence of production of single top quarks (not top-antitop pairs) by D-Zero at Fermilab. This means that they have likely observed top quarks produced by weak interactions for the first time ever. (The other events recorded have all been due to the strong force.) This is big in itself and can get bigger because it helps clear the way to possible discovery of Higgs events.
How cool is this? It's swimming in a helium lake.
Links:
Fermilab press release
D-Zero
"It" is the first evidence of production of single top quarks (not top-antitop pairs) by D-Zero at Fermilab. This means that they have likely observed top quarks produced by weak interactions for the first time ever. (The other events recorded have all been due to the strong force.) This is big in itself and can get bigger because it helps clear the way to possible discovery of Higgs events.
How cool is this? It's swimming in a helium lake.
Links:
Fermilab press release
D-Zero
// posted by QuarkNet @ 9:59 PM 
