The top quark

In my heroic quest to overrun you crackpots with real science, I'm providing a link to one of the best sites on the top quark I've come across:

http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/top_status/top.html

Specifically, look at their highlights:

http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/top_status/highlights/highlights.html

Awesome!

- Warren

 

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All the quark people should not stay in the same place these days. How did you find this site? If I were interested in quarks I would be happy with this.
Thanks,

 

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chroot,

On another note, I'm not sure if you're deliberately ignoring this thread or just missed it, but I thought I'd mention it: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17238

voltron

 

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lol, chroot. keep it coming!

maybe we could get DonH to draw picture of chroot dressed up like superman, but with "CB" for crackpot buster on his shirt instead of "S"

 

Sounds like an exclusion principle...?

Cheers,

Ron.

 

I'm going to have to admit. I'm really really dumb. The only thing I understood about that place was that Fermilab (A particle accelerator just outside of Batavia, IL - where I used to live) was observing the top quark. So, I've got a few questions.

1.)I remember there being top and bottom, but what other quarks were there?

2.)Why do I get counted points off if I don't include units on my Chemistry homework, yet these scientists get away with it? (Look at highlights, there's a table) Expected background of SVX is 6.7 plus or minus 2.1 what? Monkey tails?

3.)What's a lepton?

4.)Top quarks are produced by particle-antiparticle collisions, does Fermilab make antimatter at will now or what? Because this report says they made 1million collisions with this stuff. Where'd they get all the antimatter?

Thanks guys, please take me serious - even if #2 is kind of a joke. (But not really, I want to know why!) I'm trying to learn this stuff even if I don't have access to very great teachers. (I live in Arkansas folks, give me a break.)

 

disposable:

check out the thread james wrote about the standard model of quarks and leptons.

 

1) www.particleadventure.org

2) The table includes quantities that represent "number of events" and "probabilities." Neither of these quantities have units -- they are dimensionless.

3) Leptons are "lightweight" particles -- electron, muon, tau, three neutrinos, and each of their antiparticles.

4) Antimatter is made routinely in many different accelerators.

- Warren