At 173 GeV/c2, the mass of the top quark is 43 times greater than - TopicsExpress



          

At 173 GeV/c2, the mass of the top quark is 43 times greater than that of the next heaviest quark, the bottom. The top is also heavier than the Higgs boson, which weighs in at 125 GeV/c2. Given that particles acquire mass from the Higgs field, why does the top quark seem to interact so much more strongly with the field than the other quarks do? And what could the answer to that question tell us about fundamental physics? Those and other questions were posed at Top 2014, a meeting held four weeks ago in Cannes, France.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:13:48 +0000

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