top quark

The top quark, also known as the t quark (symbol: t) or truth quark, is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

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Decoding top quarks with precision

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC reveals how pairs of top quarks are produced along with other heavy quarks

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Physics
16 October, 2024
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16 October, 2024

ATLAS and CMS unite to weigh in on the top quark

The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date

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Physics
11 October, 2023

ATLAS and CMS observe simultaneous production of four top quarks

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have both observed the simultaneous production of four top quarks, a rare phenomenon that could hold the key to physics beyond the Standard Model

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Physics
24 March, 2023

CMS measures the mass of the top quark with unparalleled accuracy

Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to understand our world at the smallest scale

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Physics
19 April, 2022

ATLAS nets top quark produced together with a photon

With its high statistical significance, the result represents the first observation of electroweak top-quark–photon production

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Physics
24 March, 2022

Standard Model surprises at high energies

In the seventh part of the “LHC Physics at Ten” series, we look at the surprising phenomena of the Standard Model at high energies

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Physics
16 December, 2020
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16 December, 2020

CMS sees evidence of top quarks in collisions between heavy nuclei

The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang

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Physics
09 October, 2020

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Higgs boson–top quark interaction

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction

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Physics
29 April, 2020

Run top quark run

The CMS collaboration has measured for the first time the variation, or “running”, of the top-quark mass

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Physics
07 October, 2019
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07 October, 2019

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Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference

ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson

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Physics
19 March, 2018

ATLAS and CMS join forces to tackle top-quark asymmetry

Top marks for the Standard Model as LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS study the subtle behaviour of the heaviest particle

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Experiments
20 October, 2017
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20 October, 2017