It seems like some things at the Tevatron cooling ring near DZero loved the heat last week.
Tevatron
Twenty five years ago, in March 1995, the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron, announced the discovery of the top quark. Join the virtual celebration of the discovery’s 25th anniversary on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Top Quark Silver Jubilee.
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, as small as an electron but 340,000 times more massive! We don’t know how small those particles are, only that they are smaller than 1/1000th the size of a proton which itself is 1/100,000th the size of the smallest atom, hydrogen. Millionths, billionths, … soon we’re talking small numbers!
On July 15 in Ghent, Belgium, the European Physical Society formally presented the CDF and DZero collaborations with the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize “for the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties.”
From Duke Today, July 17, 2019: Teams behind the 1995 discovery are recognized for first observations of tiny but hefty particle at the heart of matter.
The CDF and DZero collaborations at Fermilab announced the discovery of the top quark in 1995, the final undiscovered quark of the six predicted by theory. The biannual prize is given for an outstanding contribution to high-energy and particle physics.
Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do about an 800-ton magnet originally used to discover new particles? Send it off on a months-long journey via truck, train and ship halfway across the world to detect oscillating particles called neutrinos, of course. It’s all part of the vast recycling network of the physics community.
Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.
IEEE recognizes the industrial innovations made possible by the design and construction of superconducting magnets for the Tevatron collider.
The magnet, a 20-foot-long dipole built for the Tevatron, appeared in the conference’s accelerator magnets exhibit.