In 2001 the Tevatron run II began, after a five year period of
significant upgrade of the accelerator itself and of the experiments CDF and
D0. After a detector commissioning run, the CDF experiment is now taking
high quality data with all subsystems functional. We report in this talk
the first preliminary CDF results on top quark and W/Z boson properties,
based on run II data. The top quark, discovered in 1994 at the Tevatron,
has proven to be a very interesting particle. Its properties allow to
perform stringent tests of the Standard Model (SM) and to search for new
physics through a deviation from SM predictions. We give here some
expectations of what Tevatron run II will ultimately provide to our
understanding of matter.
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