Top Quark Physics at the Tevatron

Abstract

We review the field of top-quark physics with an emphasis on experimental techniques. The role of the top quark in the Standard Model of particle physics is summarized and the basic phenomenology of top-quark production and decay is introduced. We discuss how contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model could affect top-quark properties or event samples. The many measurements made at the Fermilab Tevatron, which test the Standard Model predictions or probe for direct evidence of new physics using the top-quark event samples, are reviewed here.

50 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables; version accepted by Review of Modern Physics

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• Search for anomalous Wtb couplings in single top quark production in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
• Measurement of the mass difference between $t$ and $\bar{t}$ quarks
• Searching for CPT violation in top anti-top production
• Search for anomalous top quark couplings with the D0 detector
• Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks
• Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
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• Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using Soft Electron b-Tagging
• W boson polarization measurement in the ttbar dilepton channel using the CDF II Detector

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