# The top quark : physics of the final flavor

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CERN Academic Training Lecture,317
- Speaker: Melissa Franklin
- Year: 1996
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3024714)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This will be a series of lectures concerning the recent discovery of the top quark. These lectures will cover things I have learned from hanging around proton anti-proton colliders for the past 15 years, including : Proton colliders, top quark production and decay kinematics.The D0 and CDF detectors : the finer points. Identifying W's and b quark jets. Jet spectroscopy : measuring masses with jets. Jet spectroscopy : measuring masses with jets. Scrutinizing events in which real W's are produced : the counting experiments with the CDF and D0 detectors at Fermilab. Checking the kinematics and measuring the mass and cross-section. Doing spot checks : is it a W, is there another W, is it a b, are they from top ? Seeing if top fits into the rest of the so-called Standard Model (circa 1995) My future.

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## Lectures

1. [The top quark : physics of the final flavor](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3024714/e3d9fb4d6655), 45 min (CERN's player)