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Experimental Setup

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In order to study the world’s smallest particles, it is necessary to build the world’s largest machines. This chapter presents an overview of the Tevatron, at present the world’s highest energy collider, and the formidable DØ detector, in which the particle collisions are studied.

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  1. V.M. Abazov et al., The upgraded D0 detector, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A565 463–537 (2006)

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  2. J. Fast (DØ Run IIb Silicon Group), The DØ silicon detector for Run IIb at the Tevatron Nucl. Phys. B 125 (2003)

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Gillberg, D. (2011). Experimental Setup. In: Discovery of Single Top Quark Production. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7799-1_3

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