Top team effort by CDF

11 November 1998

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Scientists have been successfully seeking out the basic building blocks of matter for the past one hundred years. The first of these to be discovered was the electron, back in 1897 in Cambridge. The discovery was made using very simple apparatus by just one person, J.J.Thomson, for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Almost a hundred years later it appears that two large groups of scientists, the CDF and D0 collaborations, have completed the jigsaw puzzle with their discovery of the top quark in their experiments at the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab. Here we see some of the 450 members of the CDF collaboration standing in front of the main building of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

Credit: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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