Tevatron Greatest Hits

TL;DR

This review summarizes the Tevatron collider's design, performance, and scientific achievements, including top quark discovery, heavy quark studies, and searches for new physics, marking a significant era in particle physics research.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the Tevatron's technical evolution and its key scientific results, highlighting its role in advancing particle physics knowledge.

Findings

Discovery of the top quark and its properties

Precision measurements of strong and electroweak forces

Searches for physics beyond the standard model

Abstract

The Tevatron collider led the World energy frontier program in particle physics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. During this exciting period the standard model of particle physics was in its final stages of development and the search for physics beyond the standard model became one of the main research topics. In this review article we summarize the design and performance of the Tevatron collider and its two detectors, CDF and D0, as well as their evolution. Highlights of the Tevatron scientific results are provided, including the discovery of the top quark and measurements of its properties, studies and discoveries of the particles containing heavy quarks, precision studies of the strong and electroweak forces, searches for beyond the standard model particles and interactions, as well as the hunt for the Higgs boson.