CDF
Project
CDF is an experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in the United States. The Tevatron was operated until the year 2011 and accelerated protons and antiprotons to nearly the speed of light and frontally collided them inside the CDF detector. The detector measures the products of such collisions and reconstructs the processes that take place during the event. The aim of the analysis of the collected data is to extract new insight to the nature of matter and forces which make up our whole world.
Contribution of the ETP
The ETP has contributed to the construction of the silicon vertex detector and was very active in the analysis of the recorded data. The focus of the ETP are B and top-quark physics analyses. Among the results are the first observations of Bs meson oscillations and single top quark production. Further highlight are precision measurements of properties of exotic or excited bound quark states and the measurement of an asymmetry in the production of top and anti-top quarks. Several measurements profited from the sophisticated analysis techniques developed at the ETP.