Top Quark Physics: Recent Developments and Future Directions
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). This special issue belongs to the section "High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: collider physics; top quark; Higgs boson; CP violation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Predicted in the 1970s and discovered in 1995 at the Tevatron at Fermilab, searches for the top quark have been essential to the theoretical establishment and experimental confirmation of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM). With the largest mass of all the SM particles, and therefore the largest Yukawa coupling, the top quark plays a central role in many beyond the SM theories.
The top quark continues to play a vital role in measurements at the LHC. Its properties are being measured precisely. Also, ATLAS and CMS have both recently made observations consistent with toponium, the color-singlet bound state of a top-antitop pair. Toponium is distinct from bound states of other heavy quarks such as charmonium and bottomonium: the top quark is much heavier and decays much more rapidly. The top quark continues to provide exciting signatures that have fostered further communication between theorists and experimentalists.
With the continued interest in the top quark, we are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Universe, which aims to provide comprehensive reviews of recent developments and draft a blueprint for future directions in particle physics.
Best regards,
Dr. Yajuan Zheng
Dr. Ian Lewis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- top quark mass
- top Yukawa coupling
- potential NRQCD
- toponium
- spin-polarization correlation
- Green’s function
- BSM
- SMEFT&HEFT
- CP violation in the top sector
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