Top Quark Production and Decay at the Tevatron

Abstract

Recent measurements of the top quark production cross section and decay properties by the CDF and D0 experiments are described. The cross section has been measured in dilepton, lepton plus jets, and all-hadronic final states, and a measurement of $BR(t\to Wb)/BR(t\to Wq)$, where $q$ is any quark, has been performed. The results, though statistics-limited, are consistent with each other and with theoretical predictions.

8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XXXIIth Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 15-22, 1997