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Top quarks go it alone

The first, long-sought evidence for the production of single top quarks, by the weak interaction, has been reported from a sophisticated analysis of a large number of proton–antiproton collisions at the Tevatron.

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Figure 1: Production of single top quarks in proton–antiproton collisions.
Figure 2: Three generations, or more?

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Junk, T. Top quarks go it alone. Nature Phys 3, 80–81 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys530

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