Tests of the Standard Electroweak Model at the Energy Frontier

TL;DR

This paper reviews high-energy tests of the Standard Model's electroweak sector using Fermilab Tevatron data, setting the stage for LHC discoveries by summarizing key experimental results on gauge bosons, top quarks, and Higgs searches.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of electroweak tests at Tevatron energies, highlighting recent experimental results and their implications ahead of LHC operations.

Findings

Measurements of gauge boson properties consistent with Standard Model

Constraints on Higgs boson mass from Tevatron data

Precise top quark property measurements supporting the Standard Model

Abstract

In this review, we summarize tests of standard electroweak (EW) theory at the highest available energies as a precursor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) era. Our primary focus is on the published results (as of March 2010) from proton- antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collected using the CDF and D0 detectors. This review is very timely since the LHC scientific program is nearly underway with the first high-energy ($\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV) collisions about to begin. After presenting an overview of the EW sector of the standard model, we provide a summary of current experimental tests of EW theory. These include gauge boson properties and self-couplings, tests of EW physics from top quark sector, and searches for the Higgs boson.