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Epiphany 2003 January 3-6, 2003 Krakow, Poland TOP QUARK PHYSICS AT THE TEVATRONresults and prospects Krzysztof Sliwa CDF Collaboration Tufts University Department of Physics and Astronomy Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA Cracow Epiphany Conference on Heavy Flavours 3-6 January 2003, Krakow, Poland TOP QUARK Top quark was expected in the Standard Model (SM) of electroweak interactions as a partner of b-quark in SU(2) doublet of weak isospin in the third family of quarks First published evidence for top quark by CDF in 1994 CDF : F. Abe et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 (1994) 225 Observation (discovery) by CDF and D0 in 1995 CDF : F. Abe et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 2626 D0 : S. Abachi et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 2632 With all data from Run-0 and Run-I analysed (~110 pb-1) a summary of results and a perspective view on the status quo of top physics is given In anticipation of much increased statistics in Run-IIa (2 fb-1) the fact that top quark physics is one of the best windows to the new physics beyond the SM is emphasised; prospects are discussed TOP QUARK PRODUCTION production of top-antitop quark pairs single top quark production TOP MASS AND CROSS SECTION - methodology MEASUREMENT OF CROSS SECTION (CDF and D0) i. search for events with top signature ii. calculate expected SM background iii. count events above backgrounds iv. apply corrections for acceptance and reconstruction inefficiencies and biases ? tt pair-production cross section ? single top production cross section TOP MASS AND CROSS SECTION - methodology MEASUREMENT OF CROSS SECTION (CDF and D0) One should remember two important details: It is assumed that the selected sample of events contains just the tt events and the SM background. This is the simplest and the most natural hypothesis since top quark is expected in the SM. Some of the acceptance corrections are strongly varying functions of top quark mass, Mt. The measured cro