Top Quark Plot (IMAGE)

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Top Quark Plot

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This diagram shows the process for creating single top quarks through the s-channel. A quark from an incoming proton interacts in the Tevatron with an antiquark from an incoming antiproton, forming a W boson with much greater mass. This W boson then decays into a top quark and an antibottom quark, which can be seen in the CDF and DZero detectors.

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