Single Top Quark

Fermilab researchers Heidi Schellman and Ann Heinson take a whimsical look at the recent announcement of the discovery of the single top quark, by Fermilab's CDF and DZero experiments.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Fermilab
• Top
• Quark
• High
• Energy
• Physics
• Tevatron

[MR1QUEST]

i love science girls , 

[quicknuclearscience]

If im correct the first quark they put on the table is a top quark, just the regular quark, not decaying. Then the "single decaying top quark" they pull out is actualy a bottom quark not a top quark. When they unzipped it it turned into a top quark not a b meson. The two things they got right were the anti- muon and the muon nutrino.

[lessermystery]

Forgive me as I know nothing of particle physics, is there a difference between a top quark, and a single top quark?

[SpaceTime4D]

Uh, instead of showing an actual top quark decay, you shown a bottom quark decay into a top quark (physically impossible), releasing an antimuon and an electron-neutrino. You label the bottom quark a top quark, the top quark a B meson, and the electron-neutrino a muon-neutrino. You made a few mistakes there. Heh heh...

[SpaceTime4D]

Uh, you were showing us a bottom quark decaying into a top quark, which isn't physically possible. You didn't show us any B mesons at all. Sorry, but you totally messed up a slow-mo top quark decay.

[MaryStewart]

wonder if people contain higgs bosons?> :)

love heidi! great viid!

[TheTouchedIpod]

i love these guys i have the universe and higgs bobson :D

[fairtony]

Win. Love this

[TearyEyesAnderson]

Physics never looked so cuddly :) Only a few more days left for them to find that Higgs particle before the LHC begins it's race towards finding it, I wish them both luck and am sure both projects will come up with separate great discoveries of their own. Hopefully these cuddly things will available to the public so everyone will have a chance to separate particles and put them back together. :D

[chaosopher23]

That was a cute way to demonstrate it! Now, if the single top quark is indeed single, let's find it a date... (seriously, I am going back to school to learn this stuff, and like to make jokes about it when I can. Learning tool!)