Experimental measurements of the properties of the top quark have
improved and will continue to improve significantly, with the excellent
operation of the CDF and D0 experiments and the Tevatron p anti-p collider at
the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. All of the final state
experimental signatures from top quark production and decay are being
analysed to test if this most massive quark is sensitive to new physics
beyond the standard model. So far, observations are consistent with the
standard model. New techniques have dramatically improved the precision of
the top quark mass measurement to 1.7% and set the stage for a sub-1%
measurement by 2008. This improved knowledge of the top quark mass sharpens
the standard model prediction for the mass of the undiscovered Higgs boson,
with implications for Higgs studies at the future LHC and ILC.
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Updated: Thursday, 2006 May 11 11:30:42 CDT automatically from input from Carol Picciolo