`Top quark' is top target // Fermilab closing in on elusive atomic particle

Chicago Sun-Times | July 25, 1988| | Copyright

The search is on at Fermilab for the elusive "top quark."

This particle, one of the fundamental building blocks of matter, is locked deep inside the atom. Physicists are certain the top quark exists, because they already have discovered its twin, the "bottom quark."

But for a decade, the top quark has eluded attempts by hundreds of physicists to find it in atom smashers such as Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in far west suburban Batavia. The first scientist to bag the top quark could be in line for a Nobel Prize.

Now that a new design has doubled Fermilab's energy, scientists ...

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