Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-07-18
Rep. Prog. Phys. 68 (2005) 2409-2494
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
84 pages, 32 figures, accepted for publication by Reports on Progress in Physics
Scientific paper
10.1088/0034-4885/68/10/R03
The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle observed to date. Its large mass makes the top quark an ideal laboratory to test predictions of perturbation theory concerning heavy quark production at hadron colliders. The top quark is also a powerful probe for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In addition, the top quark mass is a crucial parameter for scrutinizing the Standard Model in electroweak precision tests and for predicting the mass of the yet unobserved Higgs boson. Ten years after the discovery of the top quark at the Fermilab Tevatron top quark physics has entered an era where detailed measurements of top quark properties are undertaken. In this review article an introduction to the phenomenology of top quark production in hadron collisions is given, the lessons learned in Tevatron Run I are summarized, and first Run II results are discussed. A brief outlook to the possibilities of top quark research a the Large Hadron Collider, currently under construction at CERN, is included.
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