The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experimental collaboration studies high energy particle collisions at the Tevatron, the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. The goal is to discover the identity and properties of the particles that make up the universe and to understand the forces and interactions between those particles. A particle accelerator uses electric fields to propel charged particles to great energies. ... In experimental particle physics, a particle detector is a device used to track and identify high-energy particles, such as produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation, or reactions in a particle accelerator. ... Fermilab Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ... Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator (or synchrotron) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. ... One of the early particle accelerators responsible for development of the atomic bomb. ... In physics, a particle is an object, or body, with only a few degrees-of-freedom, including position, and perhaps orientation in space. ... In physics, a force is an external cause responsible for any change of a physical system. ...

CDF is an international collaboration of about 500 physicists (from about 30 American universities and National laboratories and about 30 groups from universities and national laboratories from Italy, Japan, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Russia, Finland, France, Taiwan, Korea, and Switzerland). The CDF detector itself weights 100 tons, is about 12 meters in all three dimensions. The goal of the experiment is to measure exceptional events out of the billions of collisions in order to to A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... Korea (한국/韓國/Hanguk, used by South / 조선/朝鮮/Joseon, used by North) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the northwest and Russia to the north. ... The word ton or tonne is derived from the Old English tunne, and ultimately from the Old French tonne, and referred originally to a large cask with a capacity of 252 wine gallons, which holds approximately 2100 pounds of water. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... A beam crossing in a particle collider occurs when two packets of particles, going in opposite directions, reach the same point in space. ...

• Look for the production of new physics
• Measure and study the production and decay of heavy particles such as the Top and Bottom Quarks, and the W and Z bosons
• Measure and study the production of high-energy particle jets and photons
• Other studies such as diffraction

The top quark is a third-generation quark with a charge of +2/3. ... For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation) 1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon In particle physics, the quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. ... In physics, the W and Z bosons are the elementary particles that mediate the weak nuclear force. ... In physics, the photon (from Greek φοτος, meaning light) is a quantum of excitation of the quantised electromagnetic field and is one of the elementary particles studied by quantum electrodynamics (QED) which is the oldest part of the Standard Model of particle physics. ... Diffraction is the apparent bending and spreading of waves when they meet an obstruction. ...

External links

• The Collider Detector At Fermilab (CDF)