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1 online resource (xiv, 142 pages) : illustrations |
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Springer theses |
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Springer theses.
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Theoretical background -- Experimental setup -- Event reconstruction -- Analysis: event selection -- Analysis: decision trees -- Analysis: measurements |
| Summary |
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 these energies. Until now, top quarks have only been observed produced in pairs via the strong interaction. At hadron colliders, it should also |
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Ph. D. Simon Fraser University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Quarks.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Quarks
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doctoral dissertations.
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masters theses.
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dissertations.
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theses.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441977991 |
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1441977996 |
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