Wednesday 30 April 2008

Speaker: Veronique Boisvert   (Royal Holloway)

Title: The "truth" about the "top" quark from CDF

Abstract: With an unprecedented amount of integrated luminosity from the Tevatron, CDF has seen an explosion of
new and exciting measurements using the top quark. I will review the latest measurements of the top pair cross
sections and will then focus on measurements of top properties: top quark charge, flavor changing neutral currents,
charge asymmetry and the latest W helicity measurements. Finally I will briefly summarize the latest values for the
top mass and single top quark observation. Throughout I will also draw a few parallels between the Tevatron and LHC
that have an impact on top quark physics.