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...most energetic collisions in the Tevatron are capable of producing the particle at all. In addition, this king of quarks has such an infinitesimal lifetime that its presence can be inferred only from the whispery contrails of other particles into which it promptly decays. Thus the detector designed by Fermilab's scientists consists of more than 100,000 components, each intended to track different types of particles. A superconducting magnet, for example, helps measure the energy of electrons % and muons. The less these charged particles are bent by the electromagnetic field, the more energetic they are -- and the more likely...
...life for so long," says Harvard University physicist John Huth, "that there's a sense of exhaustion." The time scientists once spent working with the detector is now consumed by meetings, some 20 a week.When the CDF team comes together, it is so large it must convene in the Fermilab auditorium, and the result sometimes resembles pandemonium. The 152-page paper reporting evidence for the top quark was sent off to the Physical Review two weeks ago. It could have been submitted two months ago, but questions erupted from members of the collaboration that triggered further soul searching...
...quarks were culled from highspeed collisions between protons and antiprotons in the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab--a circular underground track four miles long which rams particles together at speeds approaching that of light...
...Fermilab's collider detector, a complicated machine over three sto- ries high and weighing more than 5,000 tons,recorded emissions of top quarks from thecollisions, Brandenburg. Huth and Franklin allhelped to design the detector...
Franklin will be joined by fellow Fermilab researcher John E. Huth. Both particle physicists are involved in the search for the elusive "top quark." And Eric J. Heller, who examines the relationships between semi-classical and quantum mechanics, will come to the Physics and Astronomy departments in 1994 from the University of Washington...