Top-Antitop-Quark Production and Decay Properties at the Tevatron

Understand

At the Tevatron, the collider experiments CDF and DO have data sets at their disposal that comprise a few thousand reconstructed top-antitop-quark pairs and allow for precision measurements of the cross section as well as production and decay properties.

• Besides comparing the measurements to standard model predictions, these data sets open a window to physics beyond the standard model.
• Dedicated analyses look for new heavy gauge bosons, fourth generation quarks, and flavor-changing neutral currents.
• In this mini-review the current status of these measurements is summarized.