Reaching for the Top
DOI: 10.1063/1.2808493
The uninitiated would have had difficulty explaining the excited crowd of physicists filling Fermilab’s auditorium on 26 April—especially since the presenters were careful to disclaim an actual discovery. Yet even though skepticism remained the watchword, the excitement of even the most ardent critics was palpable. The multinational 440‐member Collider Detector Facility group at Fermilab’s Tevatron may have glimpsed the top quark—the longsought partner of the bottom quark—at
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