TOP QUARK PHYSICS AT THE TEVATRON

Abstract

The discovery of the top quark in 1995, by the CDF and DØ collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron, marked the dawn of a new era in particle physics. Since then, enormous efforts have been made to study the properties of this remarkable particle, especially its mass and production cross section. In this article, we review the status of top quark physics as studied by the two collaborations using the [Formula: see text] collider data at [Formula: see text] TeV. The combined measurement of the top quark mass, mt=173.8±5.0 GeV /c2, makes it known to a fractional precision better than any other quark mass. The production cross sections are measured as [Formula: see text] pb by CDF and [Formula: see text] pb by DØ. Further investigations of [Formula: see text] decays and future prospects are briefly discussed.