Table of Contents
A Word from the Author vii
Prologue xi
Chapter 1 The Standard Model and Beyond 1
Quarks and Leptons 1
The Enigma of Fermion Masses 5
Vector Bosons: The Interaction Carriers 7
Hidden Symmetry and the Higgs Boson 11
Beyond the Standard Model 14
Other Fancy New Stuff 19
Chapter 2 The Tevatron and the Collider Detector at Fermilab 21
Luminosity and Cross Section 21
Inside the Proton: The Physics of Hadron Collisions 23
The Tevatron 27
The Design of the CDF Detector 30
The Components in Detail 32
Putting it Together 34
One in 50,000 Makes It 35
Chapter 3 Revenge of the Slimeballs 41
23 Events 41
The Sacred Sword 43
Data! 47
"Why Don't You Do It?" 50
Unfathomable Code 53
"Three MeV?! You Must Be Kidding Me!" 56
One PRL a Day … 59
"If You Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine" 62
Aftermath 65
Chapter 4 The Road to the Top 69
Production and Decay of the Top Quark 69
The First Searches for the Top Quark in CDF 73
One Event Too Many 79
A Heart of Silicon 83
Loose Cannon 89
Summer Student 95
"What's that Chickenshit?" 96
Chapter 5 Run 1 101
Testing the Abort System 101
"Is Dante Amidei Listening?" 105
Muslim Riots 107
The Trigger, a Battleground 109
B Tagging 113
Software Wizardry 118
Chapter 6 Top-Quark Battles 123
Jackpot: The Single-Lepton Final State 124
Enter Grassmann 129
Don't Trust the Tails! 132
Disclaimer: No Top 136
Chapter 7 The Discovery of the Top Quark 141
"Never Give Talk After Brian Greene" 141
What is Statistical Significance? 145
Evidence! 148
Run IB 152
JETVTX or SECVTX? 155
Discovery! 158
Chapter 8 The Impossible Event 161
An Improbable Chain of Events 161
Ockham's Razor and Carithers' Jewels 163
You've Got Mail 167
The Other Chicago Zoo 171
In Search of Cousins 174
Sleeping on the Job? 175
Merry Christmas, Gordy! 179
Theoretical Ideas and Experimental Tests MO
The Other Anomaly: Ray's Dijet Bump 183
Chapter 9 Preon Dreams 187
Tortoises All the Way Down 187
Jet Energy Spectra for Dummies 190
The Run 1A Measurement 195
Kolmo-Who? 200
The Media Storm 205
The Anomaly Vanishes 212
Chapter 10 A Personal Interlude 215
Just a Check 215
Which Dataset? 219
"Would You Laugh Less Loudly, Please?" 223
Chapter 11 The Supersets Affair 227
Higgs Alert 228
CDF Note Wars 232
The Scale Factor Controversy 236
Supersets! 240
Kinematic Tests 242
Godparent 244
Chapter 12 Scalar Quarks? 249
A Supersymmetric Bottom Quark 249
The Second Anomaly 251
The Godparent Report 253
A Third Anomaly: the Dimuon Bump 254
Bottom Squarks in LEP Data 258
The Lightning Rod 263
Epilogue 273
Acknowledgments 275
Name Index 277
Subject Index 281
