- March 12, 2025, 3:30 pm US/Central
- Prof. Mel Shochet, University of Chicago
- Pushpa Bhat
- Presentation
It has been 30 years since the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab by the CDF and D0 collaborations. I will begin with the need for the top quark in the Standard Model and searches that were carried out prior to the Tevatron. Then I will discuss the Tevatron era, from the early searches, to the discovery in 1995, to the investigations of top quark properties that have continued almost up to the present. I will conclude with our current understanding of the top quark based on higher statistics studies at the LHC, as well the use of the top quark as a tool in searches for new phenomena.