Discovery of Single Top Quark Production

by Gillberg Dag and Dag Gillberg

The top quark is by far the heaviest known fundamental particle with a mass nearing that of a gold atom. Because of this strikingly high mass, the top quark has several unique properties and might play an important role in electroweak symmetry breaking--the mechanism that gives all elementary particles mass. Creating top quarks requires access to very high energy collisions, and at present only the Tevatron collider at Fermilab is capable of reaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441977988
• ISBN13: 9781441977984
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"