A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Today I sumbitted an abstract for my presentation at “Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII” (http://qchs7.ist.utl.pt/) which will be held at the Azores in September.

Here is what I came up with… Not very original, but what matters is the content of the talk, not the abstract. There will be new results aplenty to show for both CDF and D0, and I will have to pick the most interesting and intriguing ones - I think I will have fun.

Precision Standard Model Measurements at the Tevatron

Abstract:

The CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider are producing exquisite new measurements of high-Pt processes with the 1 fb^(-1) of luminosity so far collected at sqrt(s)=2 TeV. Recent advances and new methodologies have allowed to measure the top quark mass with a precision of 1.3%, and the top pair-production cross section is known with an experimental accuracy which now surpasses theoretical predictions. The large datasets of leptonic W and Z decays are being exploited for several electroweak measurements. The Higgs boson is being sought in all possible decay modes, and present limits on its production confirm past predictions that an extended running of the Tevatron could allow CDF and D0 to discover that particle if its mass is light, or exclude its existence in a broader mass range. The most interesting results on the above topics will be reviewed, with an emphasis on the reach of Tevatron experiments in the next three years.